New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,806,475 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($1,955,846). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $324M
What Brooklyn Law School does
Mission
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The education of students in preparation for the legal profession. In the fall of academic year 2024/2025, enrollment was approximately 1,114.
$75,606,290 spentof which $36,892,380 as grants$77,707,561 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,606,290.
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 2020 to 2021, from $328M to $396M (+21%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Board chair
Francis J Aquila
Chairperson of the board of trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $311k → $1.2M.
18 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LAW SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 LAW SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
41% 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 LAW SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 33% · 2019 35% · 2020 51% · 2021 34% · 2022 39% · 2023 34% — 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
49% of BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
67% of BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL'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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 LAW SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record — $2.5M federal, $91k state.
- Department of Education$2.5M
- FEDERAL$91k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$157
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 LAW SCHOOL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: 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 LAW SCHOOL?
- BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,806,475 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($1,955,846). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $6,806,475 in grants to BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL?
- THE TAFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,955,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 85 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