Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 356 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,631,177 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,543,291). 223 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 356
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence does
Mission
We're freeing america from gun violence.continued on schedule oin 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 similary seek to change the culture, and change the industry.this combination is unique in the gun violence prevention movement and is essential to tackling this epidemic. By fostering a culture of responsible gun use and ownership, we can free america from gun violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public education and public health promotion programs:end family fire:educating and informing the american public about the dangers posed by loaded, unlocked guns in the home through our end family fire campaign, a coordinated marketing campaign conducted in conjunction with the ad council, and supported by world-class leaders in content development, end family fire messaging and delivery focuses on safe storage options and supports responsible american gun ownership. Campaign messaging focused initially on the unintentional shooting of eight children a day and has since shifted to include the 64 lives lost on average every day to gun suicide, specifically amongst the veteran community. Brady also works with a range of medical and social service organizations to advance the message of end family fire and ensure that parents, children, and caregivers understand the dangers of unsecured guns in the home.a cornerstone of our end family fire campaign, asking saves kids (ask), is amplified by the american academy of pediatrics, the national pta, and a range of medical and social service organizations to ensure that parents, children and caregivers understand the dangers of unsecured…
$7,143,111 spent$185,500 earned by the program64% of program spendingLegal enforcement:our legal team has led the gun violence prevention movement in landmark victories on behalf of gun violence victims for more than thirty years representing families of slain children, domestic violence victims, police officers shot in the line of duty, entire communities, and many other plaintiffs. Through litigation, we challenge laws that put americans at greater risk, and we target sources of crime guns by suing gun dealers who don't follow the law and established best practices when selling guns. Additionally, brady's legal team steps in when the american public's safety is threatened as a whole, such as the threat of widespread creation of 3d printed guns, ghost guns, and other emerging, and as yet unidentified, dangers to the public.crime guns initiative:brady's combating crime guns initiative aims to reduce gun violence in impacted communities by stemming the flow of crime guns into those communities, frequently from dealers outside their city or even their own state. The burden of ending gun violence should not rest solely on the communities most impacted. A comprehensive approach to ending gun violence addresses the supply side, specifically the gun…
$2,277,865 spentof which $64,099 as grants20% of program spendingGrassroots organizing:our grassroots network of activists and survivors across the country, who work within their own states on key priorities and collectively on national issues, supported by brady, are key drivers of brady's message and influence, lending their voice, critical connections, know-how, and capability to our programs at the local and state levels. They have been particularly successful in engaging local organizations outside the gun violence prevention space to engage with and promote brady initiatives in their specific areas.
$1,710,198 spentof which $7,878 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,131,174.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $7.7M (−34%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 73 funders to 162 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $6.9M.
71 of 356 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 356 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 CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
59% 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 CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 23% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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 CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BRADY CENTER 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Brady Campaign 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 CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE?
- BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 356 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,631,177 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,543,291). 223 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 356 organizations giving $38,631,177 in grants to BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE, 223 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,543,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRADY CENTER 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 356 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing