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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,795,278 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 170 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES is better cushioned than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Carson Family Charitable Trustshared funders
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio match
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 70 funders to 122 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $11M.
22 of 296 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 296 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 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
34% 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
39% 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
72% 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 12 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 296 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Carson Family Charitable Trustshared fundersNY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Gray Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 127 organizations near you
- Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschelshared fundersNY · backs 121 organizations that share your funders
- Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLPshared fundersNY · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- The Thompson Family Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- The Barker Welfare Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008shared funderslocalIL · backs 80 organizations that share your funders · funds 246 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES?
- THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,795,278 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($8,000,000). 170 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 296 organizations giving $73,795,278 in grants to THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 170 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.
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 296funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing