New York · Nonprofit
BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE
BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Brainerd Institute Heritage does
Mission
To preserve, interpret, and advance the academic, artistic, and cultural legacy of the historic Brainerd Institute, an influential educational institution founded in the 19th century to educate African American students in Chester County, South Carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brainerd Institute Heritage advanced its charitable and educational mission through literacy-through-the-arts programming, cultural education, and historic preservation in Chester, SC. Its primary program, Workshops in Open Fields, provided free, open-access work- shops that strengthen literacy through poetry, visual arts, music, storytelling, and cultural history. Teaching artists and educators lead hands-on instruction to improve reading skills, cultural awareness, and creative expression, especially for children and community members in underserved areas. BIH also supported community cultural events celebrating African American history and conducted planning/stewardship activities to preserve the historic campus.
$23,074 spent$56,183 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,074.
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
Ronald W Gray
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE’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.
Where its funders are
BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE?
- BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAINERD INSTITUTE HERITAGE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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