Broadway Cares awarded a record-breaking $18.3 million in grants in 2025, thanks to the support of those onstage, backstage, and in the audience, as well as many more dedicated donors and volunteers.

Of that amount, $9.5 million was awarded through Broadway Cares' National Grants Program—the largest donation in the history of the program—to 483 organizations in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. These grants provide lifesaving medication, doctor visits, mental health support, healthy meals, housing, and hope to those in need. 

Broadway Cares also shared $8.38 million with the Entertainment Community Fund, supporting its safety net of vital services—including The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts, the HIV/AIDS Initiative, and the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative—available to everyone in the entertainment industry and performing arts.

This marks the largest amount awarded the Fund in a single year, outside the unprecedented support shared to help sustain the Broadway industry during the pandemic shutdown in 2020.

“We are deeply grateful to everyone in our theatre community, our donors and volunteers, whose generosity makes this lifesaving work possible,” said Danny Whitman, executive director of Broadway Cares, 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—now and in the years ahead. The need has never been greater, and neither has our shared humanity.”

The $18.3 million total reflects Broadway Cares’ grantmaking in fiscal year 2025, which began October 1, 2024, and ended September 30. Learn more at BroadwayCares.org/grants.

Broadway Cares is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources, and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has awarded more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.