7 Local Nonprofits Serving Brooklyn’s Latinx & Hispanic Communities

Our borough is home to a diverse, innovative, and underfunded community of vital nonprofits essential to our vision of a fair and just Brooklyn -and this Hispanic Heritage Month, Brooklyn Org is lifting up 7 local nonprofits that represent the diverse Latinx and Hispanic communities across our borough.

Nonprofits with Latine, Black, and BIPOC leadership contend with major resource gaps, consistently operating with fewer resources than those that reach their peer organizations with white leadership. While Latinx communities make up 19% of the U.S. population (and 19% of Brooklynites), data shows that from 2009-2019, they received just 1.3% of all philanthropic giving nationally — and since 2019, that disparity has persisted.

At Brooklyn Org, we are committed to prioritizing investment in organizations led by people from our communities: of our total $5M in strategic grantmaking in 2023, 78% went to BIPOC-led organizations.

The list below represents just a few of the many local nonprofits that serve Brooklyn’s Latinx communities — continue reading to learn about their work on issues from foster care and adoption services to culturally responsive elder support, by and for Hispanic communities.

1. Mixteca (BKO Partner)

Mixteca provides Latinx and Indigenous immigrants with a wide range of services spanning migrant rights, economic justice, mental health, and health and wellness, and encourages community organizing and civic engagement to help immigrants establish sustainable themselves socially and economically.

2. The Spanish Speaking Elderly Council-RAICES 

RAICES operates eleven direct service sites in Brooklyn and Queens, providing culturally-responsive programming for low-income Latino and African American older adults including case assistance, behavioral health support, food assistance, health and wellness classes, and more.

3. Urban Youth Collaborative (BKO Partner)

Urban Youth Collaborative organizes student-led policy change and advocacy to end the school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects Black and Latinx students and to remove police from New York City schools.

4. El Puente

El Puente is a youth-centered human rights organization, focusing on education, the arts, environmental justice, and health and wellness to inspire leadership for social justice at their several centers throughout Brooklyn.

5. Mexican Coalition (BKO Partner)

Mexican Coalition provides Latinx community members with language classes, citizenship classes, health services, and legal services to assist them in achieving their full civic, cultural, and political integration into American society.

6. Coalition for Hispanic Family Services (CHFS)

CHFS provides foster care and adoption services, child abuse prevention programs, mental health programs, arts and after school programs, and parenting support programs for Latinx children and families, as NYC’s only Latinx-specific foster care and family services agency.

7. ¡Oye! Group (BKO Partner)

¡Oye! Group provides low-income residents and minority groups – especially young people and older adults – with opportunities to engage in arts education and performance arts, namely theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations, and film.