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Filing year 2024

THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC

Brooklyn, New York·EIN 11-3562004·NTEE A30 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$2.8M
Total assets
$3M
Total expenses
$1.8M
Reported officers
14
Mission

POLITICS THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY AND FAR BEYOND. ITS JOURNAL, IN ADDITION TO FEATURING LOCAL REPORTING, CRITICISM OF MUSIC, DANCE, FILM, THEATER, ORIGINAL FICTION AND POETRY, COVERS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART IN PARTICULAR DEPTH. IN ORDER TO DEMOCRATIZE ITS ARTS COVERAGE, THE CRITICS PAGE FUNCTIONS WITH A ROTATING EDITORSHIP. THE RAIL FURTHER FULFILLS ITS MISSION BY CURATING ART EXHIBITIONS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, READING SERIES, AND FILM SCREENINGS THAT REFLECT THE COMPLEXITY AND INTEVENTIVENESS OF THE CITY'S ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

$75k
$81k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 13 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Held steady
from 2023

From $75k in 2023 to $75k in 2024.

$75k
2023
$75k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 4% in real terms$84k to $81k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.9M
$2M
2023
$2.8M
$1.8M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in New York

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $71,214.

25th percentile
$26k
Median
$71,214
75th percentile
$161k
90th percentile
$321k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 608 organizations across 608 filings (2021 – 2023).

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