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Presents contemporary performing arts of the African Diaspora while supporting artists of African descent through performances, residencies, commissions, and cultural exchange programs.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Age Friendly Central Brooklyn

Supports healthy aging and addresses isolation among older adults in Central Brooklyn, including a large community of Black elders, with cultural and social outings, scam-prevention and health education workshops, advocating for safe public transit options, and physical fitness activities like dance and yoga.

  • Total Awarded $67,500
  • Award Years 2025–2028

Alfreda’s Picture Show

Operates a micro-cinema in Brooklyn that uplifts filmmakers of color through screenings and fellowships that center historically underrepresented stories.

  • Total Awarded $5,000
  • Award Years 2026–2027

Arts & Democracy

Brings artists, organizers, and policymakers together through workshops, learning exchanges, convenings, and partnerships that use arts and culture as tools for civic engagement and social justice.

  • Total Awarded $7,500
  • Award Years 2026–2027
The B.R.O. Experience Foundation

The B.R.O. Experience Foundation

Offers trauma-informed mentorship and healing programs that help Black and Latino young men in Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, and Bushwick build emotional resilience and leadership skills. Through summer camps, rites of passage groups, fatherhood workshops, and facilitated spaces for reflection and connection, The B.R.O. Experience Foundation supports young people in building coping skills, stronger relationships, and a sense of purpose.

  • Total Awarded $235,000
  • Award Years 2024–2027

The Billie Holiday Theatre

Creates space for Black cultural preservation with artists, young people, and audiences in Bed-Stuy through theater, education, and public programs that connect performance with civic dialogue and community life.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts

Black Trans Femmes in the Arts

Supports Black trans femme artists in Brooklyn through community-led programming, event production, and mutual aid that meet both creative and material needs. By offering residencies, emergency grants, free studio space, and public platforms for performance and storytelling—from ballroom events to a hit YouTube series—BTFA invests directly in artists and the sustainability of their creative lives.

  • Total Awarded $235,000
  • Award Years 2024–2027

BRIC Arts Media

Anchors Brooklyn’s arts and media community through exhibitions, performances, community storytelling initiatives, media education, community television, civic programs, and Celebrate Brooklyn!, one of the city’s longest-running free outdoor performing arts festivals.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Brooklyn Arts and Culture Kollective (BACK)

Works collaboratively as a coalition of Brooklyn arts and cultural leaders to strengthen the borough’s creative ecosystem through shared advocacy, fundraising, strategic planning, and collective support for Black-led cultural institutions.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $90,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

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