New York · Nonprofit
THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,928,705 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music does
Mission
The mission of the brooklyn conservatory of music is to transformlives and build community through the expressive, educational andtherapeutic powers of music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community music school: the community music school is brooklyn's hub for private instruction in instrument, composition, and voice, with individual lessons, group classes and ensembles for students of every age and ability level. We serve more than 1,000 students, ages 0 through seniors. Our passionate and highly skilled teachers - some of new york's most sought-after performing artists and educators - tailor their instruction to address the learning style and goals of each student, from the beginner to the advanced student aspiring to a career in music. The community music school includes early childhood programming, group classes for youth ages 4-7, private lessons for students 6 and above, more than 30 small ensembles, chamber groups, and large chorale and orchestral ensembles.
$1,672,380 spentof which $227,158 as grants$2,576,086 earned by the program24% of program spendingBkcm is brooklyn's premier destination for the suzuki method, a nurturing pedagogy based on the concept that all children have the ability to master the language of music, just as they master their home language. The conservatory teaches the suzuki method on seven instruments: piano, violin, viola, bass, cello, guitar and flute. Our program encompasses private lessons as well as group classes and ensembles, and music literacy (theory). Parents learn alongside their children, providing encouragement and support throughout their musical journeys. Students continually revisit repertoire, refining their skill by adding layers of artistry, mastery and musicianship.
$975,527 spent$1,306,820 earned by the program14% of program spendingMusic therapy: bkcm's music therapy program is an established psychotherapeutic practice in which clinically trained professionals address clients' emotional, cognitive, social or physical needs through therapeutic treatment that can include singing, playing instruments and moving to music. A growing body of research has shown music therapy to facilitate self-expression, reduce anxiety and channel frustration into creativity. Founded in 2003, bkcm's music therapy program is now the largest in nyc serving more than 3,200 clients out of bkcm's park slope home and at more than 50 schools, senior centers, homeless shelters and other social service organizations across the five boroughs.
$1,394,747 spent$682,479 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther music programs include:music partners: responding to a critical need to restore arts education in new york city's public schools, the conservatory created its school-based music education program, music partners, in 1988 to provide and enhance music education programs throughout the city. Now working with public schools, child care centers, youth-based agencies, and senior centers, we provide more than 4,500 children and adults in brooklyn, queens, manhattan and the bronx, with long term, sequential and inspiring music instruction. More than 70% of our students live at or below the poverty level. The conservatory collaborates with school administrators and leadership teams to tailor our programs to each school's unique needs, preferences, priorities and budgetary constraints offering options such as band, strings, chorus, world drumming and percussion, guitar, ukulele, recorder, and early childhood music and movement. In addition to learning how to play an instrument or singing in a choir, our students acquire the confidence to tackle difficult subjects, build a strong work ethic, and develop a sense of camaraderie with their peers.studio collective: the conservatory…
$2,996,982 spent$1,171,520 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,039,636.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $5.6M to $8.4M (+49%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% · 2024 6% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Chad Cooper
Executive director
Board chair
Frederick Tang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.7M.
14 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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 QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 35% — 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
47% of THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
57% of THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC'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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC?
- THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (New York) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,928,705 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($1,000,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $6,928,705 in grants to THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC?
- MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 72 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