New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 274 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,998,539 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,488,932). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 274
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $94M
What Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc does
Mission
The mission of bam is to be the home for curious people and adventurous ideas. Bam supports artistic experimentation and champions inclusion and accessibility throughout the arts as presenter, activator, and connector.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Theater programs - bam's fy25 theater programs featured world-class presentations and showcased artists and companies from countries such as germany, united kingdom, france, argentina, and the united states. Highlights included: safety not guaranteed, creator lee sunday evans' inventive musical-theater reimagining of the cult-classic film of the same name, which received two outer critics circle awards; the highly acclaimed and award-winning production of tennessee williams' a streetcar named desire, directed by rebecca frecknall and starring patsy ferran, paul mescal, and ajana vasan, which was nominated for two drama desk and one drama league award and won a theatre world award; the threepenny opera, director barrie kosky's new production of the original 1928 play by bertolt brecht, performed by the berliner ensemble, and presented in partnership with st. Ann's warehouse; and macbeth in stride, whitney white's rewritten and recontextualized version of the scottish play from the perspective of lady macbeth.
$8,725,501 spent$8,393,085 earned by the program23% of program spendingFilm programs - in fy2025, bam film served audiences through first run and film series that focused on presenting works by international and local filmmakers. Select first run films include: nosferatu, director robert eggers' atmospheric take on the 1922 silent film; the brutalist, the academy award-winning epic period drama by director brady corbet and starring adrian brody; and sinners, creator ryan coogler's highly acclaimed horror film starring michael b. Jordan. Select film series include contemporary arab cinema, featuring vital new works from bold filmmakers from the middle east and north africa; mirror of life: manoel de oliveira 1996-2004, exploring the newly restored works of prolific portuguese director manoel de oliveira; filmafrica, the cinematic component of bam's 48th annual danceafrica festival, which featured documentary and fictional works from across africa and the diaspora, with a special focus on films from and about mozambique; and the caribbean film series, bam's biannual series hosted in partnership with luminal theater and third horizon of diverse cinema from new and acclaimed filmmakers from the caribbean and the diaspora.
$5,059,013 spent$3,396,176 earned by the program13% of program spendingNext wave 2024 - bam opened its fy25 performance season with the iconic 2024 next wave series which engaged individuals through productions by artists from canada, argentina, united kingdom, thailand, france, portugal, and the united states. Highlights included: andre 3000: new blue sun live in concert, a special presentation of the rapper's bold forays into unexpected musical realms; still/here, the 30th anniversary presentation of bill t. Jones' multimedia dance theater work about living with terminal illness; sun dogs: filmmaker and composer pairings, featuring original short-format films with newly composed music created by internationally acclaimed filmmakers and musicians and performed live by ensemble, alarm will sound; journey live, an interactive presentation of the videogame journey accompanied by a live performance of the grammy-nominated score by american composers orchestra and conductor and composer austin wintory; and the hard nut, mark morris dance group's irreverent and much loved, retro-modern take on the holiday favorite the nutcracker.
$4,225,417 spent$2,863,594 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther program services
$20,312,834 spentof which $951 as grants$2,596,837 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,322,765.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $146M to $99M (−33%).
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 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 39% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Tamara Mccaw
Interim CEO (incoming)
Board chair
Diane L Max
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 114 funders, grant income rose $5.6M → $9.1M.
21 of 274 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $84M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bam Endowment Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 274 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
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 58% · 2019 24% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% — 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
44% of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 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. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Education$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$520k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$63k
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 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 1 related entity
- Bam Endowment Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC?
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 274 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,998,539 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,488,932). 166 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 274 organizations giving $61,998,539 in grants to BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC, 166 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,488,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 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 274 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