Brooklyn Org is proud to fund impactful work across our communities
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.
Provides transitional housing, legal and mental health referrals, leadership training, and political education for Black LGBTQ+ immigrants while organizing advocacy campaigns for immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights.
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.
Supports veterans with housing assistance, financial coaching, food access, and help navigating complex government benefits, ensuring Black veterans and veteran families of all backgrounds across Brooklyn receive comprehensive and dignified care.
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.
Supports Central Brooklyn homeowners and renters with housing stability services, providing hands-on guidance to access energy efficiency programs, navigate rebates, and make informed home retrofit decisions.
Supported through our Brooklyn Energy Initiative, a partnership with the National Grid Foundation, focused on energy affordability and housing stability.
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.
Invests in Brooklyn’s artists and small arts organizations through grants, arts education, professional development, and cultural programs that help creative communities across the borough grow.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.
Supports dance, theater, and multidisciplinary artists through youth arts education, artist residencies, space grants, performances, affordable rehearsal space in Park Slope and Fort Greene, and collaborative programs rooted in artistic experimentation and social justice.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.
Expands access to ballet by creating opportunities for Brooklynites of all backgrounds to study, perform, and engage with dance through contemporary repertory, professional performances, and dance education programs that bring ballet into Brooklyn schools, studios, and community spaces.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.