Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc.

Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc., doing business as Celebrate Brooklyn!, is a tax-exempt nonprofit that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to fund arts education and cultural programming in Brooklyn. The organization has received 49 awards since 2007, with $7.2 million in combined federal obligations, almost entirely (98%) in the form of prime grant awards from arts and education agencies rather than contracts. The vendor operates exclusively in the grant space with no federal contract vehicles or prime contract awardees on record.

The National Endowment for the Arts dominates the funding relationship, accounting for 40 of 48 awards (83% of the prime footprint) spanning the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival series, artist commissioning and professional development programs, and arts education residencies. The remaining three funding agencies — the Institute of Museum and Library Services (3 awards), the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (4 awards), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1 award) — are concentrated in educational media and arts-learning residency work. The top four agencies cover 98% of all prime awards.

IMLS is the most recent significant customer by dollar magnitude and scope. The September 2024 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) award is a $400 thousand project grant running through August 2026 that funds 35 to 40 twelve-session arts and media education residencies per year delivered in partnership with New York City public schools. The curriculum strengthens arts and media mastery, critical thinking, and social-emotional well-being, with supplemental gallery visits, family programs, and annual exhibitions. An earlier November 2021 IMLS National Leadership Grant ($100 thousand, completed October 2022) funded One Brooklyn TV, a partnership with the NYC Department of Education that delivered educational media content to over 550,000 Brooklyn households, including youth-produced original programming. The NEA's recurring support for Celebrate Brooklyn! has included commissioning and presentation of multidisciplinary works at the summer festival series, staff salaries and teaching artist fees for education residencies, and professional development for independent film and media artists creating content for public broadcast and streaming platforms.

Activity declined from five awards in 2021 to two or three per year in recent cycles (2022–2024), with two awards due for completion in the next twenty-four months. The vendor holds one federal grant sub-award on record (September 2024, funds for commercial district revitalization in low-to-moderate income areas), indicating predominantly direct prime-recipient status. Bric Arts Media Bklyn operates as a cultural and educational institution serving Brooklyn through federal grant support, not as a federal contractor.