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BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC

EIN 11-3129249 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,150,935
Expenses 2024
$3,193,647

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6B0
Classification
1000
Street
179 PACIFIC ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS'S MISSION IS TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE, AND EMPOWER YOUNG SINGERS OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS THROUGH ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN CHORAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE, TRAINING, AND THE CREATION OF NEW WORKS. BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS'S CITY-WIDE, MULTI-LEVEL TRAINING PROGRAM AND GRAMMY-WINNING ENSEMBLES ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR DISTINCTIVE SOUND AND VIRTUOSITY, BRINGING A FRESH PERSPECTIVE TO CHORAL PERFORMANCE THAT CROSSES BOUNDARIES AND DEFIES CONVENTION. WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF SUCCESS AND IMPACT IN THE FIELD, THE CHORUS SEEKS TO RAISE THE ARTISTIC PROFILE AND EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS IN CHORAL PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION BY FURTHERING ITS UNIQUE CROSS-CHORAL TRAINING METHODOLOGY AND BUILDING A DYNAMIC NEW REPERTOIRE FROM AN INCLUSIVE ROSTER OF COMPOSERS AND ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS IS A GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING COLLECTIVE OF YOUNG VOICES LED BY VISIONARY FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DIANNE BERKUN MENAKER. THE CHORUS HAS COLLABORATED WITH AN IMPRESSIVE RANGE OF ORGANIZATIONS AND ARTISTS INCLUDING IN THIS SEASON ALONE, POP SUPERSTAR STING, MACARTHUR FELLOW CECILE MCLORRIN SALVANT, AND ACCLAIMED BASS-BARITONE DAVONE TINES AND IN PAST SEASONS THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, BARBRA STREISAND, ARCADE FIRE, SIR ELTON JOHN, THE NATIONAL, AND GRIZZLY BEAR.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,406,888 · Revenue $1,072,008

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JESSICA HOLLOWAY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KARA HAILEY

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JORDANE ROLLIN

    TREASURER (AS OF JAN 25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHLEEN EMBERGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DIANNE BERKUN MENAKER

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $194,843
    From this org
    $165,813
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,030
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,813
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,030
    Filer's total
    $194,843

  • JACQUELINE AGUANNO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAUREN ASHCRAFT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTI AVRAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHERINE BARTHOLOMAUS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SABINA CHATTERJEE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NAOMI GARDNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRACY GARRISON-FEINBERG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NICOLAS GRABAR

    TRUSTEE/TREASURER (TO DEC 24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • YOUNG HAH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY JAMES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNA MCNEIL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAMUEL NANA-SINKAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN ROCKEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRACE ROW

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN ROUNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHARI JENKINS TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AMANDA VAN DOORENE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BLAKE ZIDELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MEGAN LEMLEY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $142,421
    From this org
    $127,643
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,778
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,150,935
    Expenses
    $3,193,647
    Contributions
    $974,282
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,106,574
    Expenses
    $2,480,863
    Contributions
    $3,076,979
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,956,057
    Expenses
    $2,388,219
    Contributions
    $1,058,406
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,554,522
    Expenses
    $2,044,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,209,949

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,102,257
    Expenses
    $2,082,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,345,684

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,486,851
    Expenses
    $1,761,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,251,363

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,920,233
    Expenses
    $2,209,446
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,990,088

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,647,619
    Expenses
    $2,442,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,423,194

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,224,193
    Expenses
    $2,350,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,202,767

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,339,978
    Expenses
    $2,443,297
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,244,830

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,296,532
    Expenses
    $2,640,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,297,176

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,398,907
    Expenses
    $2,287,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,533,504

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,050,048
    Expenses
    $2,349,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,386,092

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.