New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,211 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($225,092). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $498k
- Net assets
- $398k
What Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Inc does
Mission
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research provides community-based education in the liberal arts and sciences to working adults from all walks of life. It also provides a place for scholars to research, write, and teach out
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, BISR ran 173 total courses, with approximately one-quarter held in person in New York City and the remainder online. Across courses, we taught over 3000 students and offered approximately 500 scholarships. We also expanded our Language Learning and Critique program to offer courses in Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic.
$1,025,292 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,025,292.
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 2021 to 2022, from $77k to $607k (+684%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Miller
Chair person
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 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
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 53% · 2019 78% · 2020 64% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
61% of BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $193k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC?
- BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,211 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($225,092). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $498,211 in grants to BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $225,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing