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Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn

From monthly donations to Donor Advised Funds, Brooklyn Org supporters are champions for our communities

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Our work would not be possible without the generosity and commitment of you—our donor partners. Our impact is only as strong as the collective that we build together. From long-term philanthropists to first-time givers, we have a community of donors that meets our goal of democratizing philanthropy and giving every Brooklynite a seat at the table.

From Brooklyn Org members to Donor Advisors, our community shows what it looks like when Brooklyn backs Brooklyn. We can work with you to provide tools to meaningfully engage with the most pressing issues that our communities face.

So, whether you’ve given $50 or $50,000, we greatly appreciate your trust in Brooklyn Org to put your money to work in the most effective way possible. And thank you for coming to our webinars, events, and site visits and for being a part of the foundation of our future.

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Ways to Give

For us, philanthropy is a key element of living an outward-facing and engaged life, of not being complacent in the face of inequity, of supporting real and needed change. Susannah Taylor & Phil Marriott
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I think Brooklyn Org is rare, if not unique, and it’s a privilege to be a part of it. Rabbi Rachel Timoner
BKO Board Member and Donor
This is a thing that anyone can do – as long as you’ve got a good sense of who’s in your community, and how you can best serve them, you can start a fund.
Tarik Ward
DAF Holder
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We can certainly help people who are in need, and are fleeing terrible circumstances, and try to welcome them to our country as best we can. Emily Berger
Ruth's Refuge Peer to Peer Fundraiser

Our Partners

Corporate Supporters

Amalgamated Bank

Anat Gerstein, Inc.

The Baupost Group

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Boston Consulting Group

Brooklyn Alliance, Inc.

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation

Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP

Con Edison

Debevoise & Plimpton

Escalon Services, Inc.

Google*

Forethought Advisors, LLC

Freshfields LLP

lmpactAssets

Interior Building Services, Inc.

Keil and Correa LLP

Kirkland and Ellis LLP

K Offices

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Lede Company

Linkedln*

Maycomb Capital

McKinsey & Company*

National Grid

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Park Slope Cleaning

ParkPoint Strategies

Pathstone

Paul Hastings LLP

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Pfizer*

Ponce Bank

Santander Bank

Selendy Gay PLLC

The Service Collective

Starcraft Press

TerraCRG

Vita Coco

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Wells Fargo

Foundation Supporters

Bergen Family Foundation

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust

The Boston Foundation

Congregational Home Legacy Fund

DeLaCour Family Foundation

The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation

Edward S. Moore Family Foundation

Gates Foundation*

Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund

LeBlanc Family Fund

Levissa Fund

The Lipsky Family Donation Fund

The Offensend Family Foundation

The Richard and Barbara Moore Family Foundation

Seedworks

Sills Family Foundation

The Stardust Fund

Susan Beth Salo Foundation

Torrey Family Foundation

Ventress Family Foundation

Warburg Pincus Foundation

The WRG Foundation

 

* Employee Matching Program

 

Our Family of Funds

Anonymous (25)

1065 Atlantic Community Impact Fund

1834 Project

A Better Brooklyn Fund

The Addy Thornton Memorial Fund •

Akintayo Holder Fund

Albert Vann Legacy Scholarship Fund •

Allinbklyn ‡

Amelia & James Wilson Family Fund

Andrew Kimball Sarah Williams Fund

A Tree Grows In Red Hook

Barbara Edwards Delsman and Alan M. Delsman Fund

Beacon Giving Group ‡

Becker Family Fund

Bee Raw-Save the Bees

Black Art Futures Fund

BREDS Fund

BREDS Fund II

The Brock McGill Foundation

Brooklyn Branches Giving Circle ‡

Brooklyn Dream Network

Brown Seed Fund

Buckholz Fontaine Fund

Bunchberry Fund

Carson Family Fund

The Callon Family Fund

CGJN Fund

Christopher P. Santoro Scholarship Fund

Constance L. Christensen Fund

Crystal Wei Forward Fund

Darrow Family Fund

David Alexander Scott Memorial Fund •

Eberly Wallace Family Fund

E. K. P. Bettridge Fund

Empowering Venerable Achievement Fund •

Fellerath Goodwin Fund

Fishman Family Fund

Four Oaks Brooklyn

Frankie Morris-Perez Memorial Scholarship Fund •

Friends of New York Gregorian Chant Project Fund •

Frosenblumin Fund

Furci Family Fund

Gasteyer-McKittrick Family Fund

Gillespie Giant Family Fund

Giraffe Fund

Goldman Sachs Commodities Giving Circle ‡

The Grace Fund •

The Gratitude Fund

Griffiths Family Fund

Gueron-Strickland Family Fund

Hammond Family Scholarship Fund

Hinton Phillips Family Fund

The lchigo Charitable Fund

Island in the Sun Fund

Jesse and Wendy’s “Neighbor To My Neighbors” Educational Advancement Scholarship •

Jessie Streich-Kest Memorial Fund •

JMH BK Charitable Fund

Joel Herzig Memorial Fund •

John Raskin and Eric Schneider Fund

Joseph Mohbat Memorial Fund •

Judy and Henri Gueron Family Fund

Judy Olivia Grant Legacy Fund •

The Kaye Family Charitable Fund •

Kiley-Waibsnaider Fund

Kirven Family Fund

Lasting Memories Fund •

Leslie and Andy Schultz Family Fund

Magic Pebble Fund

Mamie and Justin Stewart Family Fund

Maple Hill Road Fund

Marti Family Fund

The Meyer-Minoff Family Fund

Miles Ahead Fund

Nicholas “Nico” Isaac Memorial Fund •

The Pasta Rose Scholarship •

Pelican Foundation for Creative Education •

Prober-Hughes Family Fund

PSVL Quincy and Nia Fund

The Rainey Scholarship Fund

Raymond J. Rue Memorial Scholarship •

The Reeves-Walker Fund

Roney Liu Brooklyn Impact Fund

Rossman Family Fund

Saleem Ali Foundation •

San Filippo DAF

Schwartz Family Foundation

The Scout Fund

Serescitos Fund

Shaheen Rushd & Jeremy Silverman Family Fund

Snowy Day Fund

Stanford GSB Alumni for Black Lives

Stardust Fund

Stirrup Family Fund

Stone Wenk Cashion Family Fund

Susan and Peter Restler

Taylor Marriott Family Fund

Thigpen Hill Family Fund

Timothy & Nicholle Simons Family Charitable Fund

TJFJ Fund for Children

The Varela-Pelenur Fund

VLD Gives

Wayne S. Mackie Memorial Fund •

We Ride at Dawn

Whoriskey Family Fund

Yatrakis Family Fund

Board Designated Endowed Fund

The Fishman Family Fund For Economic Opportunity

Corporate Advised Funds

Brooklyn For All Fund

Etsy Impact Fund

Etsy Uplift Fund

Levitt Foundation Donor Advised Fund

Murtala Tunde Balogun Foundation

Urban Youth Activist Fund

Field of Interest Funds

CABS Community Foundation

Congregational Home Legacy Fund

The Fund for the Health and Integrity of Seniors

Nonprofit Funds

Brooklyn Ballet Fund

Brooklyn Empower Fund

Brooklyn Chamber of Music Society Fund

The Human Justice Fund

 

‡ Giving Circle

• Memorial/Tribute Fund

 

Individuals and Families

A-B

Anonymous (8)

Nancy Abraham and Colin Brown

Marc Abrams and Virginia Lam

Herbert and Rochelle Adasko

Dave Algoso and Annie Coombs

Chris Angove and Erica Cohen

Jacob and Megan Arnold

Jennifer Jones Austin and Shawn Austin

Penn Badgley

Anindya Basu and Jerry Miko

Jessica Bauman and Ben Posel

Christine Benson

Lara and Stuart Bergen

Shari Berman and Jack Pascarosa

Martha Berry and Curtis Cravens

Thomas Bettridge+ and Wendy Reitmeier

Neil Binder and Rachel Karliner

Jonathan Bines and Alexandra Jacobs

Johanna and Paul Bonewitz

Monique Brizz-Walker

Laurel Brown

Brownsville Community Culinary Center

Maria L. Buck

C-E

Janel Callon

Camille Cole and Ben Heidlage

Robert Cantor and Margo Levine

Madeline and Ed Carson

Karen and Ted Casey

Joan and Robert° Catell

Michael Cembalest and Rachel Hines

Center for Justice Innovation

Center for Law and Social Justice

Megan Chopra and Rahul Sevani

Constance Christensen

Bedirhan Cinar

Francis Clayton and Jessi Hempel

Ivy Gamble Cobb

James and Jane Cohan

Marjorie Coleman

Neill Coleman

Nina L. Collins

Community Help in Park Slope, Inc. (CHiPS)

Alison Conn

Kevin and Shavonne Correia

Laura J. Corwin

Bethany D’Meza

Katharine+ and Peter Darrow

Mark R. Dean

Juliette DeCarlo

Michelle DeFossett+ and Victor Banks

Alan and Barbara Delsman

Matthew Dickstein

Elizabeth Doherty

Shaun Donovan and Liza Gilbert

Guy Dorsainvil and Alison Maschmeyer

Ashley Eberhart and Michael Kowal

Atiba Edwards

David Ehrenberg and Jessica Yager

Gail Erickson and Christa Rice

Joan Erskine

Exalt Youth

F-G

Eliza and Jason Factor

Carolyn Fast and Michael Tiger

Sharon Fay and Maxine Schaffer

Andrew and Sophie Ferrer

Wendy Feuer

Alan° and Judith Fishman

Mark Foggin

Andrew and Blake Foote

Kathy Franklin

Brittney Fraser

Tanya Friedman+ and Denise Savoy

Michael Frumin and Erica Rosenblum

Peter Furci+ and Suzanne Elio

Linda Gaudiani

Edward and Kathleen Gentner

Tony Gerber and Lynn Nottage

Michael and Sarah Gerstenzang

Michael Gillespie+ and Lauren Giant

Gabrielle Gilliam

Steven Glenn

Amilcar Gomes

Colvin and Sandi Grannum

Alice and Robin Griffiths

Jay and Stephanie Gromek

Marc Gross and Susan Ochshorn

Nicole Gueron+ and Carter Strickland

Samidh Guha

Hank and Karoly Gutman

H-K

Kristine Haag

Steven Hakusa

Ellen and Scott Hand

Justine Harris and Jack Youngelson

Maggie and Ronan Harty

Gary Hattem and Frazier Holloway

Grace Havlin

Anne Herrmann

Michael Hirschhorn and Jimena Martinez

Rebecca Hollander

Meredith Hostetter and Anthony Newman

Dana Hughes and Melissa Prober

Simeon lheagwam

Michael and Patty lntrator

Lesleigh Irish-Underwood+ and Frederick Underwood

Wanda and Zachary Jackson

Wes Jackson

Hilary+ and Edwin Jager

Zul+ and Melissa Jamal

Sarah James

Anne January and Paul Van Horn

Amanda and Matthew Jones

Lauretta Joseph

Avani Kadakia and Arjun Patel

Liana Kane and Jon Silvan

Mamie Kanfer Stewart+ and Justin Stewart

Matthew Kaplan and Kamy Wicoff

Kaan Karakaplan

Susan Karwoska and Benjamin Kligler

Sarah Kaufman and lsaac Zaur

Jessie Kelly

Lawanna Kimbro+

Kings County Tennis League

Richard Klein

Katherine and Scott Kleiner

Lorena Kourousias+

L-M

The Laundromat Project

Dune Lawrence

Ian Levy

Vivian Liao Korich+ and Dan Korich

Jonathan and Judith Lief

Patty Lipshutz and Lorin Silverman

Christopher Lotts

Lori and Marvin Luis

Jonathan Mahler and Danielle D. Mattoon

Betsy Mallow and Jeremy Robbins

David Mandelbaum

Kenneth and Susan Mandelbaum

Deitra Mara and Anthony Santa Cattarina

Harsha+ and Meera Marti

Rebecca Cummings Martin

Teresa Mathew

Art Matin and Lise Porter

Diane Max

Emmett and Lindsay McCann

Joseph and Pamela McCarthy

Kevin Patrick McCaul

Depelsha McGruder

Natalie McVeigh

Scott Medintz and Emily Reisbaum

Noa Meyer+ and Edward Minoff

Kimberly Miller and Ian Pancham

Sarah Min and Matthew Pincus

Michele Mirman

Sanjay and Sonali Mody

Marji Molavi and John Rizio-Hamilton

Morgan Monaco

Richard° and Barbara Moore

Chandraban Motilall

Kelly Murphy

N-R

Amanda and Patrick Nichols

Erika Nijenhuis

North Star Fund

Maeve O’Connor

Katharine and Ryan Ogg

Sean O’Neal and Ambereen Sleemi

Audra and Robin Ottaway

Randy Peers and Deborah Roman-Peers

Matias Pelenur and Alejandro Varela

Carlo and Lucy Perry

Andi Phillips+ and Paul Hinton

Rhonda Pirvulescu

Gabriel and Lindsay Pizzi

Matthew Porter

Dana Pouwels

Brittany Prescott

David and Leslie Puth

Jocelynne and Perry Rainey

Matthew and Megan Rand

Reading Partners

Tucker Reed and Olga Trofimenko

Kevin and Marcia Reilly

Peter and Susan Restler

Adan Retana

Art Richardson

Carley Roney+ and David Liu

Anouk and Matt Roose

Daniel and Lisa Ross

Chelsea Rossetti

Eliza and Jim Rossman

Jennifer and Matt Roux

David Ruff

Shaheen Rushd+ and Jeremy Silverman

Sara Russell

Michelle Ryba

Eric and Pamela Rytter

S

Matthew Sachs

Salvatore Salpietro

Nancy Sands

Connie+ and John Sargent

Sunil Savkar

Edward Scarvalone and Hillary Weisman

Christopher Schott and Carla Shen

Gabriel Schwartz° and Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz

Samantha Scupp

Beesham Seecharan

Kerry Sesil

Shiman Shan

Vishal+ and Monica Sheth

Aaron Shiffman

Hildy Simmons° and David Sprafkin

Tim+ and Nicholle Simons

Eric Slovin

Mimi and Richard Somerby

Susan Sommer and Stephen Warnke

Fernando Soto

Daniel Soyer

Emily St. Omer Roy

Cary Stathopoulos

Liane Stegmaier

Diane° and Joseph Steinberg

Shelley+ and Rochelle Stewart

David Streter

Nan and Carter Strickland

STRIVE New York

Alexa and Marc Suskin

T-Z

Karen Tayeh

Susannah Taylor+ and Phillip Marriott

Annemiek Ter Linden

Tupper W. Thomas

Lynda Thompson

Rabbi Rachel Timoner+

Sarah Tobin

Eric and Katherine Todrys

Kaya Turan

Ariane Turley

The Van Zandt Family

Ashwin Vasan and Johanna Von Braun

Shari Verschell

Jennifer and Ryan Votaw

Simeon Wallace and Pauline Zwaans

Demetrius Washington

Claudia and Ted Weissberg

Isaac and Sarah Wheeler

Carmencita Whonder+ and Augustine Saylee

Daniel and Kim Williams

Sarah Williams° and Andrew Kimball

Amerika and Bradd Williamson

Florence Wilson

Michael and Michele Wolfson

Selin Zalma

 

+ Brooklyn Org Board Member

° Brooklyn Org Trustee Emeritus

BKO welcomes contributions of all amounts and is grateful for the partnership of thousands of Brooklynites each year; for brevity, this list reflects total giving of $500 and above from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. We make every effort to list names correctly and apologize for any errors or omissions. Please reach out with any corrections at giving@brooklyn.org.