Louisiana · Nonprofit
BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC
BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,212 to it, the largest being FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC has grown faster than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundationshared funderslocal
- Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltdportfolio match
- Ach Child and Family Servicesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
100% of BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $24k.
From the IRS filings of BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 81% · 2020 71% · 2021 68% · 2022 44% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
63% of BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundationshared funderslocalLA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ach Child and Family Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Center for Child and Family Studiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pedersen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Kentucky Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlie's Heart Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crawford and Boyle Foundation INCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centra Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Margarita Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round Room Gives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Km Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC?
- BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,212 to it, the largest being FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $236,212 in grants to BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC?
- FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVE HEART - CHILDREN IN NEED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing