EIN 11-2495664

Brooklyn Children's Museum

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
96
Year formed
1899
Most recent tax filings
2022-06-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
Brooklyn Children’s Museum promotes cultural literacy through experimentation and exploration. We believe in the power of culture to help children and families find comfort, resilience and stimulation.
Also known as...
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
Total revenues
$6,705,945
2022
Total expenses
$5,648,010
2022
Total assets
$6,384,198
2022
Num. employees
96
2022

Program areas at Brooklyn Children's Museum

Maintenance & security. In order to serve its community, Brooklyn Children's Museum maintains a 125,000 square foot facility. Maintenance and facilities staff oversee safety, cleanliness and repairs for the plant, and are represented by municipal union dc 37.
Exhibit: in fiscal year, 2022, bcm served almost 200,000 people, which is up from the 60,000 people served in fiscal year 2021.bcm's permanent exhibits include world Brooklyn, a recreated street featuring child-size replicas of real Brooklyn stores; neighborhood nature, an exploration of the borough's ecosystems; collections central, an area that highlights objects from the Museum's collection through themed exhibitions; totally tots, an early childhood sensory learning space; and, colorlab, a studio featuring hands-on art-making highlighting black art and artists.annually, the Museum hosts temporary exhibitions in its visiting exhibits gallery. In fiscal year 2022, bcm opened Brooklyn voices, an immersive exhibit that shares a diverse collection of Brooklyn's stories from bcm's historical archives, share a family recipe, play hopscotch with a new friend in the streetscape, and discover how our neighborhoods and streets got their names; artrink: a note to our future, bcm's rooftop art exhibition featuring the work of sixteen local artists and a 3,000 square-foot synthetic ice skating rink, and jurassic mini-golf, which featured a nine-hole mini-golf course and several animatronic dinosaurs.in fiscal year 2021, bcm opened two exhibits: oyster city, telling the story of how oysters have been re-introduced to new york's waterways, and makeryard, a makerspace prompting children to build their own structures and sculptures using recycled materials.
Education. Bcm's education programs serve 30,000 students and chaperones annually through 1,000 school and camp field trips; provide free afterschool and summer camp for 200 central Brooklyn families; and serve roughly 100 teens through youth engagement and workforce development programs. The Museum hosts public programs, school field trips, and performances that introduce young learners to visual arts, dance, music, gardening, and many other disciplines. The Museum also runs free after school and summer camp programs for families in the neighborhood and a workforce development initiative for central Brooklyn youth. Bcm's school programs include field trips and "field-trip-in-a-box" kits to be used in classrooms that serve thousands of elementary students and educators annually.
Collections, visitor services, development, membership, marketing and government and community affairs.

Who funds Brooklyn Children's Museum

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Charles H. Revson FoundationCollections Connections, Bringing Brooklyn Children's Museum Collections To BPL Branches$190,090
Hearst FoundationsSupport for Ongoing Operations$100,000
Goldman Sachs GivesCommunity Outreach & Enrichment Programs$85,000
...and 27 more grants received totalling $764,642

Personnel at Brooklyn Children's Museum

NameTitleCompensation
Stephanie H WilchfortChief Executive Officer$214,115
Atiba EdwardsChief Operating Officer$153,766
Hana ElwellDirector$102,063
Margaret WaltonDirector of Government and Community Affairs
Jackie SchalkDirector of Development and Events
...and 14 more key personnel

Financials for Brooklyn Children's Museum

RevenuesFYE 06/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$5,163,897
Program services$698,630
Investment income and dividends$29,912
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$447,945
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$78,552
Net income from fundraising events$243,592
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$43,417
Total revenues$6,705,945

Form 990s for Brooklyn Children's Museum

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-062023-05-09990View PDF
2020-062021-05-26990View PDF
2019-062021-01-28990View PDF
2018-062019-08-06990View PDF
2017-062018-10-16990View PDF
...and 7 more Form 990s
Data update history
July 6, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
June 30, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 35 new personnel
May 19, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
May 12, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
May 8, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $10,000 from Hyde and Watson Foundation
Nonprofit Types
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsMuseumsCharities
Issues
Arts, cultural, and humanitiesChildren
Characteristics
Fundraising eventsState / local levelReceives government fundingEndowed supportTax deductible donations
General information
Address
145 Brooklyn Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
County
Kings County, NY
Website URL
brooklynkids.org/ 
Phone
(718) 735-4400
Facebook page
BrooklynChildrensMuseum 
Twitter profile
@brooklynkids 
IRS details
EIN
11-2495664
Fiscal year end
June
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1899
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
A52: Childrens Museums
NAICS code, primary
7121: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Parent/child status
Independent
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