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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$41kCommunity Improvement$29kEducation$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $270,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,190,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $920,669 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $233k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAILEY'S CAFE INC$26,000
GRAND PISTACHIO ARTS CORPORATION$20,000
PARLE ENDEAVORS INC$20,000
BROOKLYN YOUTH COMPANY INC$17,000
CHAMBERQUEER INC$15,000
ONE WHALE'S TALE LLC$15,000
WHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC$15,000
BROOKLYN FAM FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND MUSIC INC$15,000
DOMINICANS LOVE HAITIANS MOVEMENT INC$10,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$10,000
NATIONAL QUEER THEATER$10,000
POWRPLNT INC$10,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$10,000
THE THELMA HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
BUSHWICK WORKSHOP SPACE$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SISTERS WITH PURPOSE INC: $6k → 20%HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE INC: $7k → 20%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $8k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$619k · 23 repeat orgs$598k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
50

Total granted

$619k
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+24%

Still filing today

78%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    RAGA MASSIVE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +6%
  • BC
    BAILEY'S CAFE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +8%
  • BY
    BROOKLYN YOUTH COMPANY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +40% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • MD
    MCKOY DANCE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +35% · 39% of their budget
  • TA
    THE AFROLATIN PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • BR
    BAY RIDGE STOREFRONT ART WALK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · 62% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
2
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
3
All Out Arts Inc

Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.

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4
New Dance Alliance Inc

New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…

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5
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
6
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
—
7
Planet Arts Inc

Cultural and educational performances

Arts & Culture
8
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

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9
Fjk Dance Inc

A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City

Arts & Culture
10
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Nia Theatrical Production Company Inc

Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.

Arts & Culture
12
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Council On the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Regina Opera Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts ProductionBrooklyn Healthcare Provide…Brooklyn Community Developm…Youth Development & Enrichm…Neighborhood Community Cent…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr16%24%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr23%17%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr5%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%11%<5yr16%20%5–10yr21%39%10–20yr23%21%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr5%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
7/106
the rest of the field
11%
1,802/15,789

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/75
Grantees still filing
45/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAGA MASSIVE INC — $67,268 · Arts & CultureRAGA MASSIVE INCBAILEY'S CAFE INC — $64,400 · Arts & CultureBAILEY'S CAFE INCBROOKLYN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $46,635 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN YOUTH COMPANY INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $45,064 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCCONTINUUM CULTURE & ARTS INC — $44,851 · Arts & CultureCONTINUUM CULTURE & ARTS INCOYE GROUP INC — $24,564 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN FAM FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND MUSIC INC — $24,449 · Arts & Culture+31 more — $370,755 · Arts & Culture+31 moreONE WHALE'S TALE LLC — $25,000 · OtherONE WHALE'S TALE LLCGUNG HO PROJECTS LLC — $24,683 · OtherGUNG HO PROJECTS LLCFULTON ART FAIR INC — $20,501 · OtherFULTON ART FAIR INCRedhawk Indian Arts Council Inc — $20,000 · OtherROOTED THEATER COMPANY INC — $20,000 · OtherBROOKLYN BRASS BAND COLLECTIVE INC — $16,000 · Other+29 more — $250,731 · Other+29 moreBUSHWICK WORKSHOP SPACE INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementARTS & DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTWW INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCANARSIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSOMETHING POSITIVE INC — $21,500 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $10,000 · EducationCORA INCORPORATED — $5,933 · EducationUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $7,520 · Human ServicesHaiti Cultural Exchange Inc — $7,333 · Human ServicesSISTERS WITH PURPOSE INC — $6,135 · Human ServicesPARLE ENDEAVORS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners — $13,493 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$687,986Other$376,915Community Improvement$40,000Philanthropy$31,500Education$25,933Human Services$20,988Youth Development$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,493

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAGA MASSIVE INC — $67,268 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetBAILEY'S CAFE INC — $64,400 over 5y, 15% of budgetBROOKLYN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $46,635 over 3y, 49% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $45,064 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINUUM CULTURE & ARTS INC — $44,851 over 4y, 19% of budgetOYE GROUP INC — $24,564 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSOMETHING POSITIVE INC — $21,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetGRAND PISTACHIO ARTS CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNational Queer Theater — $20,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetRedhawk Indian Arts Council Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPARLE ENDEAVORS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetYaa Samar Dance Theatre — $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDANCING CRANE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMCKOY DANCE PROJECT INC — $19,360 over 1y, 39% of budgetL'ATELIER THEATRE NY INC — $17,328 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetESSENCE THEATRE-STUDIO INC — $15,805 over 2y, 21% of budgetWENDYS SUBWAY INC — $15,397 over 3y, 16% of budgetChamberQUEER Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners — $13,493 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArts Gowanus Inc — $11,771 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBAY RIDGE STOREFRONT ART WALK INC — $11,500 over 1y, 62% of budgetAFRICAN PEACH ARTS COALITION — $11,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBUILDING BEATS INCORPORATED — $10,900 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWOVEN SPACES INC — $10,393 over 1y, 31% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE RIVER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetARTS & DEMOCRACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSUMMERTIME GALLERY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTWW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCIRCUS AMOK — $10,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSALUTE TO YOUTH INC — $9,666 over 1y, 66% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $9,467 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC — $9,395 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCULTURE PUSH INC — $8,325 over 1y, 13% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $8,309 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIA COLLABORATIVE ARTS CORPORATION aka Adrienne Westwood Projects — $7,613 over 1y, 22% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $7,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArt Yard Bklyn Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetQUEENS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOR STATEN ISLAND INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERS WITH PURPOSE INC — $6,135 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCORA INCORPORATED — $5,933 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC — $5,833 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliance of Resident …The Howard Gilman Fou…In Our Backyards IncBrooklyn Community Fo…Dance Service New Yor…The Harkness Foundati…Mid Atlantic Arts IncMertz Gilmore Foundat…The Ford FoundationCity Parks Foundation…The Map Fund IncLily Auchincloss Foun…
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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brooklyn Arts Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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