Texas · Nonprofit
BRAVE COMMUNITIES
BRAVE COMMUNITIES (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,124 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Brave Communities does
Mission
To cultivate brave spaces for diverse people to come together to Build Relationships Awareness Voices Engagement so we can co-create more just and equitable communities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
BRAVE YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAM: A diverse cohort of young people have met virtually for monthly workshops, followed by peer-organized group meetings to prepare group projects, civic engagement and community building initiatives to help them build leadership, antiracism, bias reduction, and project management skills
$26,626 spent$28,419 earned by the program30% of program spendingCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: Responded to the crises caused by COVID, BRAVE creates ongoing community events and initiatives that bring people together to celebrate common ground and honor differences - ensuring everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.
$26,626 spent$28,419 earned by the program30% of program spendingGLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE PROGRAM: Producted cultural exchange and social innovation programs for 60 young leaders ages 16-38 and helped to design and facilitate leadership and social change programs that bring emerging leaders young from different countries to learn about and discuss solutions for issues impacting their respective communities
$17,750 spent$18,946 earned by the program20% of program spendingCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Offered a variety of community-building initiatives, such as panel discussions, movie/documentary screenings, circle talks
$17,750 spent$18,946 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,752.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $150k to $276k (+84%).
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: 2022 60% · 2023 53% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BRAVE COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Maximillian Ekesi
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $50k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 BRAVE COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BRAVE COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BRAVE COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of BRAVE COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
BRAVE COMMUNITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRAVE COMMUNITIES
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAVE COMMUNITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAVE COMMUNITIES?
- BRAVE COMMUNITIES (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,124 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAVE COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $193,124 in grants to BRAVE COMMUNITIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVE COMMUNITIES?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVE COMMUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 6 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