Microgrants

To strengthen the nonprofit sector of Brooklyn and support organizations at various stages of growth, Brooklyn Org is now accepting applications for microgrants. This funding will support organizations not yet eligible for our Strategic Grants or other prizes due to budget requirements; microgrants will support community-based organizations with budgets of under $100,000.

Community and neighborhood-based groups can now apply anytime of the year (see timeline below) for general operating support microgrant funding of up to $10,000 for one year.

Across all our grantmaking, we support organizations that advance racial justice and provide critical resources to BIPOC and other groups that have been historically disempowered and discriminated against across Brooklyn.

Application Timeline

Eligibility: 

• Organizations must be based in Brooklyn or actively working in Brooklyn.
• Organizations must have an annual budget in the last fiscal year under $100,000.
  • Under $100,000 in expenses in the last year. 
• Organizations must be a 501c3 or operating under the auspices of a 501c3 fiscal sponsor.
• Organizations must have at least one year of operations and programming.

We do not fund: 

• Individuals.
• Projects of a larger organization whose budget is over $100,000.
• Capital campaigns.

As we review proposals, we give preference to:

• Groups founded by members of the community in which they work.
• Organizations that work at the community or neighborhood level, responding directly to a need in their community.
• Organizations that engage volunteers and community members in their work, and are not solely the project of one person.
• Are explicitly focused on racial and social justice.

Please submit only one application per review period: June 1 – November 30 and December 1 – May 31. Multiple submissions will not be considered, and the last one received will be reviewed.  Organizations can only receive one grant per year.