New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,204,430 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Brooklyn Arts Council Inc does
Mission
To enrich the quality of life of the residents of brooklyn through the promotion of the arts in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Creative learning: bac conducts workshops and residencies in a range of artistic disciplines for in- and after-school programs, at seniors centers, and at community facilities. These programs benefit thousands of youth and adults in brooklyn.arts services: bac provides technical assistance, professional development, resources and tools to support artists and other not for profit arts groups in brooklyn. These services strengthen our community and build the capacity of others to serve as well.regrants: bac receives funds for regranting to brooklyn cultural organizations and artists in amounts up to $10,000.these grants are awarded by peer panel review. Grants are monitored, progress reports received and reviewed.arts programming: bac conducts programming featuring, and for, brooklyn artists with a focus on professional development and financial stability. Programming takes place through the borough.
$3,525,001 spentof which $1,190,669 as grants$86,414 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,525,001.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $1.8M (−50%).
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 71% · 2018 74% · 2019 80% · 2020 81% · 2021 52% · 2022 76% · 2023 72% · 2024 77% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Rasu Jilani
Executive director
Board chair
Christine Osuji
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $107k → $541k.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 ARTS COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 24% · 2019 42% · 2020 20% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 69% — 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
19% of BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
80% of BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL 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. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $285k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$285k
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 ARTS COUNCIL 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC: 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 BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,204,430 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $4,204,430 in grants to BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL 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 55 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