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BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC

BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,760 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($390,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$573k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$823k
Net assets
$619k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Brookfield Craft Center Inc does

Mission

The Brookfield Craft Center mission is to preserve the skills of contemporary and traditional craftsmanship and promote creativity and personal growth through teaching. BCC will promote the advancement of traditional and contemporary crafts regionally and nationally through education programs in our studios, provide income opportunities for artists through sales in our gallery shop and creative opportunities through exhibitions, lectures, and studio time.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We provide classes in many crafts in our eight studios.These include glass arts, woodturning, fiber arts, jewelry making, painting & drawing, clay, digital skills in our Center for Modern Craft, blacksmith and bladesmithing in our forge.

    $203,490 spent$299,283 earned by the program
    70% of program spending
  2. Our retail gallery provides a venue for artists to sell their work, with revenues going to the artist and to subsidize the craft center operations. The gallery also hosts several exhibitions each year highlighting the work of local and national artists, as well as hosting an exhibition for local area students.

    $88,200 spent$78,873 earned by the program
    30% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $291,690.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($448k) Net assets 100 ($688k)2020 Revenue 96 ($424k) Expenses 78 ($351k) Net assets 111 ($761k)2021 Revenue 98 ($432k) Expenses 110 ($491k) Net assets 102 ($703k)2022 Revenue 112 ($492k) Expenses 110 ($493k) Net assets 102 ($702k)2023 Revenue 150 ($658k) Expenses 121 ($541k) Net assets 119 ($819k)2024 Revenue 117 ($513k) Expenses 128 ($575k) Net assets 110 ($757k)2025 Revenue 130 ($573k) Expenses 147 ($657k) Net assets 90 ($619k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (130)Expenses (147)Net assets (90)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+17%).

$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.2M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’19
$73k
’20
−$59k
’21
−$1k
’22
$117k
’23
−$62k
’24
−$83k
’25
4.8
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed9109891111
Joined·+1+0+0+4+5+2
No longer listed·011332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $18k → $133k.

3 of 15 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 BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER 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

BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 86% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.

“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 BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.

NY
IA
NJ
CT
MO
DE
AR

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

44% of spending goes to programs.

Program 44%Management 56%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC?
BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,760 to it, the largest being WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($390,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $822,760 in grants to BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC?
WALLACE RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $390,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing