New York · Nonprofit
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,473,662 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,755,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc does
Mission
Bric is a leading arts and media institution anchored in downtown brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bric community media - bric is the new york emmy award-winning public access television organization for brooklyn, new york. We offer low-cost media production classes and free access to television production facilities. We air community-produced free speech content on our cable network, and in-house content focused on brooklyn. In fy25, 770 community producers worked with brooklyn free speech tv. Brooklyn free speech supported 1,608 community productions through bric's community media studios and equipment offerings. 566 users aired content on bric's brooklyn free speech tv channels. Bric adult media education ran 427 in-person and online classes and programs, serving 9,362 registered participants (5,906 attendees) from 25 states and 6 countries. All classes were free or low cost, maintaining broad access. Bric certified 465 media producers and expanded offerings with programs such as youth filmmaking and photography bootcamps, ai in screenwriting, and small business media training, while deepening partnerships with organizations including the mayor's office of small business services, reel sisters, seed&spark, and the center for communication; and original series programming on…
$4,756,559 spent$7,196,571 earned by the program52% of program spendingBric performing arts programs include presentation of music, dance, theater, film, and spoken word, and support for the development of new work. In fy25 bric celebrate brooklyn executed 18 free shows, 4 benefit shows, 78 musical acts, hosted 75,000 seasonal attendees, and attracted 8 b+ media impressions. Bric jazzfest achievements include executing a 3-night festival; activating 2 stages, supporting 120 performers in our venue, and selling 1,858 tickets.
$4,037,091 spent$1,296,001 earned by the program44% of program spendingBric contemporary art programs include exhibitions, public events, and an innovative education program at our 3,000-square-foot gallery at bric house, through a subsidised studio residency, and around the borough. Our aim is to increase the visibility throughout bric house and the accessibility of contemporary art and media while bridging the gap between the art world and global culture in brooklyn. In addition, our art education programs bring these experiences to students throughout new york. 63 teaching residencies, 3,200 students participated in our school-based art education program and activities in 47 schools in 13 school districts and community centers, and bric house delivery of digital education content.
$285,394 spent$274,305 earned by the program3% of program spendingBric house is an accessible destination for art performance, media & educational programs for artists, audiences, and community members.
$146,841 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,225,885.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $16M (−26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% · 2024 9% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Saidah Blount
Executive director, bric celebrate brooklyn
Board chair
Michael Liburd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $379k → $1.2M.
13 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for BRIC Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 37% · 2019 23% · 2020 45% · 2021 39% · 2022 16% · 2023 41% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$925k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$600k
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 BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Fund for Bric Inc · exempt
- The Fund for Bric Community Media Inc · exempt
- Strand Theater Tenants Association · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC?
- BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,473,662 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,755,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $7,473,662 in grants to BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,755,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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