Texas · Nonprofit
BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY
BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,775 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($25,775). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Brave Little Company does
Mission
Brave Little Company is Theatre for Everyone. We create and produce works about, with, and for all of Houston's kids, reflecting the diversity of Houston in the stories we tell and the artists who tell them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Creative Youth: Our Creative Youth programs provided more than 4,000 children and their families with the opportunity to express themselves. Free programs held around the city help ensure creative expression for all of Houston's kids.
$117,982 spent78% of program spendingProductions: We performed 5 original, multilingual performances throughout the greater Houston area and in 8 towns and cities across Texas, reaching over 3100 people.
$26,542 spentof which $8,000 as grants18% of program spendingWish You Were Here: We premiered a dual language version of this program, working with non-English-speaking families of people with disabilities. The 15 participants felt confident creating sensory storytelling experiences.
$330 spent0% of program spendingTHE BIG "US" PROJECT: Through our connections in Houston's refugee communities, we created 6 educational, dual language performances on healthcare topics to educate newcomers about common health problems.
$6,301 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $6k to $3k (−47%).
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.
11% of BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
Against its field
BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY: 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 LITTLE COMPANY?
- BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,775 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($25,775). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,775 in grants to BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $25,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVE LITTLE COMPANY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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