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Braata Productions Inc

Braata Productions Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,064 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($182,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$825k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$301k
Net assets
$693k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Braata Productions Inc does

Mission

Braata Productions advanced its mission to preserve and promote Caribbean culture by delivering a full year of artistic programming, cultural education, and community engagement. In 2025, the organization presented theatrical productions, musical performances, and cultural festivals that served diverse audiences across New York City and the Caribbean diaspora. Programs included the Braata Singers, Christmas Grand Market, and the Bankra Caribbean Culture Festival, collectively reaching thousands of attendees. Braata also provided educational workshops and community presentations for schools and partner organizations, engaging hundreds of youth, adults, and seniors. These activities increased access to Caribbean arts, supported emerging artists, and strengthened cultural understanding within the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cultural Productions: Braata Productions held several cultural performances during its fiscal year to engage and educate attendees on Caribbean culture.

    $405,264 spentof which $748,095 as grants$55,191 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $405,264.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2019 Revenue 152 ($202k) Expenses 152 ($193k) Net assets 139 ($35k)2020 Revenue 183 ($243k) Expenses 123 ($155k) Net assets 487 ($121k)2021 Revenue 140 ($186k) Expenses 154 ($195k) Net assets 441 ($110k)2022 Revenue 488 ($648k) Expenses 278 ($352k) Net assets 1631 ($406k)2023 Revenue 382 ($508k) Expenses 383 ($485k) Net assets 1709 ($426k)2024 Revenue 641 ($852k) Expenses 504 ($638k) Net assets 2567 ($639k)2025 Revenue 621 ($825k) Expenses 609 ($771k) Net assets 2784 ($693k)
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Revenue (621)Expenses (609)Net assets (2784)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $151k to $494k (+227%).

$25k
$35k
$122k
$151k
$494k
$441k
$689k
$781k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2022 84% · 2023 57% · 2024 74% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of Braata Productions Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’18
$10k
’19
$88k
’20
−$9k
’21
$296k
’22
$23k
’23
$213k
’24
$54k
’25
6.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Christopher Liu

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920202022202320242025
Listed9117586
Joined·+5·+1+5+1
No longer listed·3·323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $55k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Braata Productions Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Braata Productions Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

61%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 91% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of Braata Productions Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

75% of Braata Productions Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
PA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Braata Productions Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Braata Productions Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Braata Productions Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 47%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Braata Productions Inc?
Braata Productions Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,064 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($182,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Braata Productions Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $301,064 in grants to Braata Productions Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Braata Productions Inc?
THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $182,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Braata Productions Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing