New York · Nonprofit
BRAVE HOUSE INC
BRAVE HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,634 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($610,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $846k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $569k
What Brave House Inc does
Mission
To create a safe community space and provide legal, mental health, and holistic services to immigrant girls, ages 16-24, in new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Holistic & legal advocacy -we offer in-house monthly events on art, community-building, financial literacy, fun, exploring nyc, and more (such as ice skating, bowling, and astrology night). We provide tailored, individualized advocacy and community support to over 500 young women per year, including 40+ new and expecting young moms, many of whom are survivors of abuse and are single mothers of infants and toddlers. We distribute food, baby goods, hygiene items, emergency grants, and more to our community. In our holistic approach, we fight for humanitarian protections for youth survivors of gender-based violence including asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, t visas, u visas, and vawa. Our legal advocacy model ranges from full legal representation in immigration court, to legal consultations, to know your rights training. For cases we cannot accept in-house, we partner with our local, trusted non-profit partners to ensure our participants receive legal representation. Our private brave house mobile app promotes legal literacy by including important individualized case information for each participant (including a summary of their legal status), calendar reminders, and…
$160,522 spentof which $2,660 as grants45% of program spendingLeadership and educational support - we provide case management for education and employment. We partner with 250+ volunteers per year and host events on professional development and mentorship. We partner with local colleges and high schools to meet brave house participants that are immigrant students. We have a youth leadership board who meets monthly for leadership training modules and peer learning. We leverage our mobile app to share bilingual job opportunities and paid internships. We provide participants with help with school and english language support as well as training necessary to advance their careers.
$86,683 spentof which $5,060 as grants24% of program spendingMental health advocacy - we provide individual mental health support to participants through in-house therapy and a network of pro bono partnerships. We assist participants in enrolling in health insurance and government benefits including wic and snap. We host wellness and self-care events from intimate group therapy to self-care events with wellness offerings such as meditation and yoga. We seek to cultivate a sense of community while empowering immigrant women to explore diverse ways of healing.
$74,470 spent21% of program spendingOther programs
$32,455 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $354,130.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $217k to $586k (+170%).
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 HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Lauren Blodgett
Executive director
Board chair
Priya Ramanathan
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $442k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 HOUSE INC’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 HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 40% · 2022 35% · 2023 65% — 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
60% of BRAVE HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
74% of BRAVE HOUSE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAVE HOUSE INC
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 New York
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
91%
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 HOUSE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC?
- BRAVE HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,584,634 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($610,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAVE HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,584,634 in grants to BRAVE HOUSE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVE HOUSE INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVE HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 26 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