How much does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc give?

Brooklyn Arts Council Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $270,000, out of $1,190,669 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Youth Development (3%), Community Improvement (2%).

Who are Brooklyn Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Raga Massive Inc ($67k), Bailey's Cafe Inc ($64k), Brooklyn Youth Company Inc ($47k).

Does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Brooklyn Arts Council Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, In Our Backyards Inc.

Where is Brooklyn Arts Council Inc based?

Brooklyn Arts Council Inc is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Brooklyn Arts Council Inc

To enrich the quality of life of the residents of brooklyn through the promotion of the arts in the community.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Itemized grants FY2025: 35
Organizations funded FY2023: 60%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2025: $270k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $26,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 35; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Brooklyn Arts Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	22	$270k	64%
FY2023	35	$367k	60%
FY2022	22	$234k	82%
FY2021	4	$30k	100%
FY2020	11	$95k	45%
FY2019	14	$121k	86%
FY2017	13	$100k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$41kCommunity Improvement$29kEducation$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Raga Massive Inc	$67,268	6	7%
Bailey's Cafe Inc	$64,400	5	15%
Brooklyn Youth Company Inc	$46,635	3	49%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$45,064	5	0%
Continuum Culture & Arts Inc	$44,851	4	19%
One Whale's Tale LLC	$25,000	3	n/a
Gung Ho Projects LLC	$24,683	3	n/a
Oye Group Inc	$24,564	2	5%
Brooklyn Fam Festival of Arts and Music Inc	$24,449	3	n/a
Something Positive Inc	$21,500	2	20%

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All grantees of Brooklyn Arts Council Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Raga Massive Inc	$67,268	6	7%
Bailey's Cafe Inc	$64,400	5	15%
Brooklyn Youth Company Inc	$46,635	3	49%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$45,064	5	0%
Continuum Culture & Arts Inc	$44,851	4	19%
One Whale's Tale LLC	$25,000	3	n/a
Gung Ho Projects LLC	$24,683	3	n/a
Oye Group Inc	$24,564	2	5%
Brooklyn Fam Festival of Arts and Music Inc	$24,449	3	n/a
Something Positive Inc	$21,500	2	20%
Fulton Art Fair Inc	$20,501	3	n/a
Afrolatino Forum	$20,454	2	n/a
Redhawk Indian Arts Council Inc	$20,000	2	6%
Grand Pistachio Arts Corp	$20,000	1	12%
National Queer Theater	$20,000	3	6%
Parle Endeavors Inc	$20,000	1	28%
Yaa Samar Dance Theatre	$20,000	2	4%
Rooted Theater Company Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Dancing Crane Inc	$20,000	2	4%
McKoy Dance Project Inc	$19,360	1	39%
L'Atelier Theatre Ny Inc	$17,328	2	10%
Brooklyn Brass Band Collective Inc	$16,000	2	n/a
Essence Theatre-Studio Inc	$15,805	2	21%
Wendys Subway Inc	$15,397	3	16%
ChamberQUEER Inc	$15,000	1	20%
White Bird Productions Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners	$13,493	2	0%
The Afrolatin Project Inc	$11,847	1	n/a
Arts Gowanus Inc	$11,771	2	6%
African Peach Arts Coalition	$11,500	1	6%
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk Inc	$11,500	1	62%
Building Beats Incorporated	$10,900	1	4%
Woven Spaces Inc	$10,393	1	31%
Saving Our Babies Inc	$10,325	1	n/a
Grow Brownsville	$10,000	1	n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$10,000	1	0%
Dominicans Love Haitians Movement	$10,000	1	n/a
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Powrplnt Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Circus Amok	$10,000	2	10%
Bushwick Workshop Space Inc	$10,000	2	n/a
Tww Inc	$10,000	1	15%
Summertime Gallery Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Dreamstreet Theatre Company Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Falconworks Artists Group	$10,000	1	n/a
Arts & Democracy Inc	$10,000	1	14%
Fund for the City of New York Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Lampblack Literary Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
New York Music Cooperative	$10,000	1	n/a
Canarsie Community Development Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Future River Inc	$10,000	2	6%
Idesygn Creative LLC	$9,850	1	n/a
The Parsnip Ship Inc	$9,683	1	n/a
Salute to Youth Inc	$9,666	1	66%
Renegade Performance Group Producti	$9,627	1	n/a
One Breath Rising Inc	$9,566	1	n/a
The Performance Zone Inc	$9,467	3	0%
Unique Projects Inc	$9,395	1	1%
Crossfire Steel Orchestra Inc	$9,352	1	n/a
Curatorial Program for Research Inc	$8,899	1	n/a
Dishman & Co Choreography Inc	$8,500	1	n/a
Culture Push Inc	$8,325	1	13%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc	$8,309	2	0%
Feed Your Mind Music Inc	$7,950	1	n/a
VIA COLLABORATIVE ARTS CORPORATION aka Adrienne Westwood Projects	$7,613	1	22%
United Community Centers Inc	$7,520	1	0%
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc	$7,500	1	0%
The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Art Yard Bklyn Inc	$7,500	1	5%
Queens Council on the Arts Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Perennial Muse	$7,500	1	n/a
The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporated	$7,500	1	0%
Haiti Cultural Exchange Inc	$7,333	1	n/a
LoftOpera Inc	$6,805	1	n/a
We Make Noise Inc	$6,574	1	n/a
Sisters With Purpose Inc	$6,135	1	6%
Cora Incorporated	$5,933	1	1%
Norte Maar Collab Projects Artsinc	$5,833	1	7%
The Wyckoff House & Association Inc	$5,833	1	2%
Friends of City Reliquaryincorporated	$5,833	1	n/a
Arts East New York	$5,833	1	n/a
Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music Inc	$5,633	1	n/a
Artistic Talent Inc	$5,498	1	n/a
Creative Developments LLC	$5,430	1	n/a
New Music Theatre Project Inc	$5,250	1	14%
The Regina Opera Company Inc	$5,182	1	n/a

Brooklyn Arts Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliance of Resident Theatres New York IncNY33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · In Our Backyards Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Dance Service New York City Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Ford Foundation · City Parks Foundation Inc · The Map Fund Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Brooklyn Arts Council Inc

How much does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc give?: Brooklyn Arts Council Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $270,000, out of $1,190,669 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Youth Development (3%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are Brooklyn Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Raga Massive Inc ($67k), Bailey's Cafe Inc ($64k), Brooklyn Youth Company Inc ($47k).
Does Brooklyn Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brooklyn Arts Council Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, In Our Backyards Inc.
Where is Brooklyn Arts Council Inc based?: Brooklyn Arts Council Inc is based in NY.