Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has revealed a banner year in quantifying the impact of the organization’s National Grant Program. In the 2025 fiscal year (which ran Oct. 1, 2024 through Sept. 30, 2025), the nonprofit provided $18.3 million in grantmaking, a record high. This funding is made possible through support of those within the theater community — onstage, backstage and in the audience — in addition to donors and volunteers.
Included within that $18.3 million is $9.5 million awarded through Broadway Cares’ National Grants Program to 483 organizations in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. These grants provide medication, mental health services, food, housing and more to those in need.
Additionally, Broadway Cares provided $8.38 million to the Entertainment Community Fund, which encompasses entertainment industry services such as the Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, the HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative. Including within these monies is $2 million specifically earmarked for emergency financial assistance. This marks the largest amount Broadway Cares has awarded the Entertainment Community Fund in a single year, aside from the year of Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
“We are deeply grateful to everyone in our theater community, our donors and volunteers, whose generosity makes this lifesaving work possible,” said Broadway Cares executive director Danny Whitman in a statement. “At a time when so many of the organizations we support are facing devastating budget cuts, your continued compassion ensures they can keep providing food, medication and care to those who need it most. While we can’t replace every dollar of lost funding, we can promise this: Broadway Cares will remain a steady, reliable partner — in the years ahead. The need has never been greater, and neither has our shared humanity.”
