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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 313 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,958,788 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 313
- Grants received
- $76M
- Net assets
- $372M
What The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences does
Mission
The mission of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial and educational curatorial - the brooklyn museum studies, preserves and exhibits a vast and comprehensive collection that spans nearly 6,000 years of history and represents cultures from around the globe. Permanent installations present the museum's collections of arts of the americas and europe; arts of ancient egypt, africa, asia, and the middle east; contemporary, and feminist art. Several of the museum's collections are considered to be among the highest quality in the world, including its american and egyptian art collections. (continued in schedule o)traveling exhibitions provide unique opportunities for audiences from across the globe to experience works from the museum's renowned collection. Education - innovative education and public programs serve students, teachers, families and adults this year. Through exploring the collection and special exhibitions and through hands-on art-making, these programs strengthen classroom learning and promote lifelong connections to the visual arts. Nationally recognized programs such as first saturdays has become one of the most beloved brooklyn programs, hosting approximately 1.5 million visitors since its debut in 1988.…
$32,926,319 spent$2,373,220 earned by the program68% of program spendingSpecial exhibitions brooklyn museum pioneers the presentation and interpretation of the visual and artistic heritage of world cultures. A well-rounded selection of exhibitions reinforces the museum's leadership in arts scholarship. These exhibitions attracted robust public attention and engaged audiences of all backgrounds and ages in the visual arts.
$8,818,731 spent$796,429 earned by the program18% of program spendingPublic affairs and information in fy25, more than 500,000 visitors explored our extraordinary permanent collections, attended special exhibitions and participated in our public programs.
$5,198,726 spent$2,764,617 earned by the program11% of program spendingMerchandise operations the brooklyn museum shop extends our visitors' experience. Our inventory is comprised of exhibition-related items, brooklyn museum logo products, catalogs and other publications.
$1,825,728 spent$460,977 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,769,504.
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 $323M to $388M (+20%).
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 25% · 2018 20% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 9% · 2022 26% · 2023 21% · 2024 23% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 70 funders to 122 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $11M.
23 of 313 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 313 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
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
33% 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 THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 34% · 2021 15% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% — 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
38% of THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES'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. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$815k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$300k
- National Endowment for the Arts$218k
- Department of the Interior$5k
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 THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: 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 THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 313 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,958,788 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 179 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 313 organizations giving $75,958,788 in grants to THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 179 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 313 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