Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,240 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($120,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $-2629333
What Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence does
Mission
We're freeing america from gun violence.in a country where firearms outnumber people, our country's gun violence epidemic requires a multi-pronged approach and that's what brady, the leading gun violence prevention organization in america, delivers. Inspired by the roadmap behind successful movements to curb youth smoking, promote seatbelt use, and prevent drunk driving, we tackle three critical areas: change the laws, change the industry, and change the culture. This combination is unique in the gun violence prevention movement and is essential to tackling this epidemic. The overwhelming majority of americans including democrats, republicans, independents, and gun owners support stronger gun laws and responsible gun ownership. Our goal is to build a sensible policy foundation that keeps americans safe without infringing on their second amendment rights. We build upon the bipartisan legacy of our namesakes, jim and sarah brady, who won the landmark brady bill.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy advocacy and grassroots organizing: brady's emphasis is on crafting, promoting, and lobbying for lifesaving policy changes at the federal and state level to expand and protect universal background checks, renew the lapsed assault weapons ban, enact public health policies and investments that reduce violence in communities most impacted across the united states, and propose life-saving gun violence prevention innovations that promote gun industry reforms critical to stemming the flow of illegal guns.our policy and organizing teams engage our grassroots network across the country, activating them to engage lawmakers to support or oppose key measures nationally and locally. These advocates are provided materials, communications guidelines, support, and expertise in shaping strategy and messaging around enhancing state, local, and federal laws. This grassroots network is a key driver of brady's message and influence - lending their voice, critical connections, expertise, and capability to brady programs as well. We know that we cannot prevent gun violence in america until we dismantle structural barriers to a healthy democracy. Our guns & democracy work relies on grassroots…
$1,329,696 spentof which $9 as grants59% of program spendingYouth advocacy: in response to the 2018 mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas hs in parkland, fl, brady created team enough. Team enough is a youth-led initiative that mobilizes young people in the movement to end gun violence, including by educating the public on the causes and legislative solutions to end not only mass shootings, but also the daily gun violence that impacts our urban communities. With the creation of the national lobbying collective, team enough works in conjunction with other youth organizations, such as march for our lives, on the state and local level, training the next generation of gun violence prevention advocates on effectively communicating with elected officials to pass policies to end america's gun violence epidemic.
$925,877 spentof which $149,825 as grants41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,255,573.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.0M to $8.1M (+167%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Joe Sakran
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $11k.
3 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 41% · 2019 46% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence · exempt
- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Voter Education Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE?
- BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,240 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($120,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $454,240 in grants to BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 33 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing