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THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC

THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $395,000 to it, the largest being THE POSTAGE STAMP FARM FOUNDATION INC ($395,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$395k
Net assets
$95M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Brant Foundation Inc does

Programs

  1. The Brant Foundation presents Thirty Are Better Than One a solo exhibition of over 100 artworks by Andy Warhol at its East Village location on view from May 10 through July 31 2023. The survey spans the entirety of Warhols illustrious career from his early drawings and intimate polariods to instantly recognizable silkscreens and sculptures. Thirty Are Better Than One pulls in large part from the Brant Collections which includes an expansive and coherent selection of Warhols work. It is curated by Peter M. Brant founder of The Brant Foundation and an early patron collaborator and close friend of the artist.

    $1,377,155 spent
  2. The Brant Foundation is pleased to announce Basquait x Warhol at the Foundations East Village location curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart and Peter M. Brant in collaboration with Dr. Anna Karina Hofbauer. On view November 1 2023 through January 7 2024 this is the first time the collaboration has been the subject of a major New York exhibition since Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat at Gagosian Gallery in 1997. The exhibition is traveling from Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris France and has benefited from the collaboration between the two institutions.

    $841,629 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($91M)2021 Revenue 61 ($1.7M) Expenses 75 ($1.8M) Net assets 102 ($92M)2022 Revenue 126 ($3.5M) Expenses 114 ($2.7M) Net assets 102 ($93M)2023 Revenue 188 ($5.2M) Expenses 188 ($4.4M) Net assets 103 ($94M)2024 Revenue 130 ($3.6M) Expenses 131 ($3.1M) Net assets 104 ($95M)
20172021202220232024
Revenue (130)Expenses (131)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $93M to $94M (+1%).

$91M
$93M
$93M
$94M
$95M
20172021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20172021202220232024
Listed55555
Joined··+0+0+0
No longer listed··000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $125k → $120k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of THE BRANT FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.

FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC?
THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $395,000 to it, the largest being THE POSTAGE STAMP FARM FOUNDATION INC ($395,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $395,000 in grants to THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC?
THE POSTAGE STAMP FARM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $395,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BRANT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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