New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC
BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,611,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($331,489). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy Inc does
Mission
Brooklyn youth chorus's mission is to inspire, educate, and empower young singers of diverse backgrounds through artistic excellence and innovation in choral music performance, training, and the creation of new works. Brooklyn youth chorus's city-wide, multi-level training program and grammy-winning ensembles are known for their distinctive sound and virtuosity, bringing a fresh perspective to choral performance that crosses boundaries and defies convention. With over 25 years of success and impact in the field, the chorus seeks to raise the artistic profile and educational standards in choral performance and education by furthering its unique cross-choral training methodology and building a dynamic new repertoire from an inclusive roster of composers and artistic collaborators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1992, the grammy award-winning brooklyn youth chorus academy (byc) is dedicated to offering music training and choral performances to enrich the lives of its students and community. Through music study and professional-level performances, byc unites children of diverse backgrounds and helps them develop into confident and expressive musicians and individuals. Byc strives to advance the artistic role of youth choruses through innovative concerts, commissions and artistic collaborations.in 2024-25, byc's choral music education and performance program served 667 nyc students ages 518, including 541 in ensemble rehearsals and 126 through school partnerships and workshops. Students received instruction across six training levels and three performing ensembles, supported by private lessons, musicianship classes, and masterclasses. Byc welcomed artistic advisors arreon a. Harley-emerson and dr. Diana v. Sez to strengthen artistic and educational programming. Byc's college and career readiness initiative supported 18 teens with focused vocal training, mentorship, and college preparation for artistic careers.in this, 33rd season, byc presented 40 performances reaching more than…
$2,406,888 spent$1,072,008 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,406,888.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $5.9M (+40%).
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 8% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 58% · 2023 14% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Megan Lemley
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Holloway
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $237k → $362k.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
37% 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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 22% — 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
48% of BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY 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. $937k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $265k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$265k
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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC?
- BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,611,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($331,489). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,611,512 in grants to BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $331,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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