Brooklyn Arts Council Inc
Brooklyn, NY · EIN 23-7072915. Reported 86 grants totalling $897,759 to 67 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Brooklyn Arts Council Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 67 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 14% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,850 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,430 and the largest $19,635. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
24 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $267,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baileys Cafe Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $42,880 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Raga Massive Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $36,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gung Ho Projects LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $34,683 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | $32,225 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Youth Company Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $29,635 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oye Group Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $24,564 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Continuum Culture & Arts Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Something Positive Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Circus Amok Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dancing Crane Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Future River Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Queer Theater Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| One Whale's Tale LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rooted Theater Company Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yaa Samar Dance Theater | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brooklyn Fam Festival of Arts and Music Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $19,449 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mckoy Dance Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $19,360 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Flex Dance Program Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Speciwomen Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tilly & William LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women Make Movies Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Afrolatin Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $11,847 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African Peach Arts Coalition | Forest Park, GA | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saving Our Babies Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,325 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arteeast Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts & Democracy Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Brass Band Collective Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bushwick Workshop Space Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Canarsie Community Development Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dancers Unlimited | Princeton, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emit Theatre Inc | Bronx, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Falconworks Artists Group | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grow Brownsville Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lampblack Literary Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| My People Tell Stories LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Music Cooperative | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Noosphere Arts Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redhawk Indian Arts Council Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stoops Art & Community LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Summertime Gallery Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tww Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vp Performing Arts | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| What Will the Neighbors Say | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Idesygn Creative LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Parsnip Ship Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $9,683 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salute to Youth Project of the Brooklyn Chapter of the Links | Brooklyn, NY | $9,666 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Renegade Performance Group Productions LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $9,627 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One Breath Rising Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $9,566 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| L Atelier Theatre Ny Inc | Bronx, NY | $9,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unique Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $9,395 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Curatorial Program for Research Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $8,899 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Via Collaborative Arts Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $7,613 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Essence Theatre-Studio | Brooklyn, NY | $7,553 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bronx Council on the Arts Inc | Bronx, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island | Staten Island, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Queens Council on the Arts Inc | Astoria, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sisters With Purpose Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $6,135 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Live Arts Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Academy of Medical and Public Health Services | Brooklyn, NY | $5,993 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arts Gowanus Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,921 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fulton Art Fair Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,512 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Artistic Talent Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,498 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Creative Developments LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $5,430 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
16 of 67 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Brooklyn Youth Company Inc
NYC DCLA RE-GRANT FOR BROOKLYN ARTS FUND PROJECT - Mckoy Dance Project Inc
NYSCA REGRANT FOR LOCAL ARTS SUPPORT - Fractured Atlas Inc
NYC DCLA REGRANT FOR BROOKLYN ARTS FUND - Raga Massive Inc
NYC DCLA REGRANT FOR BROOKLYN ARTS FUND PROJECT - Flex Dance Program Inc
HOWARD GILMAN REGRANT FOR CREATIVE EQUATIONS FUND - Speciwomen Inc
SOCIAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP REGRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 of 67 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | $30,000 | $7,500 |
| 2021 | 23 | $233,792 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 35 | $366,967 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $267,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Brooklyn Arts Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 128 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 20 Jay Street 616, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
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