Illinois · Nonprofit
BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE
BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,458,340 to it, the largest being PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Brave Space Alliance does
Mission
Brave Space Alliance is a social services agency providing affirming, culturally competent, for-us by-us resources, programming, and services for individuals within chicago's south and west side communities. We empower, embolden, and educate the community through wrap-around services, knowledge-sharing and community-sourced resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health and wellness: onsite hiv and sti testing, medical referrals, linkage to prep, health literacy education materials, behavioral health support sessions, support groups, and informational sessions with providers.
$244,162 spent17% of program spendingFood pantry: bsa's community pantry serves as an alternative food system that reaches individuals who fall outside of existing services available to populations experiencing hunger in chicago. We partner with dozens of local restaurants, food re-distributors, and local, bipoc-run farms to provide 3,000+ lbs of food biweekly.
$159,017 spent11% of program spendingHousing: the jasmine alexander housing building offers temporary residential support for up to 5 housing-insecure individuals for 6-12 month temporary housing. Programming also includes financial literacy and workforce development.
$127,139 spent9% of program spendingIdentity & dignity: the dignity suite (rooms offering free, gender-affirming clothing, accessories, and hygiene items), free barber and beautician services, free transit passes, assistance enrolling in snap and other benefits, pop-up name change clinics, and ballroom events and classes.
$107,918 spent8% of program spendingOther various program services.
$799,833 spent$23,909 earned by the program56% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,069.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $4.6M (+179%).
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 38% · 2023 29% · 2024 58% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nicole Patin
Interim CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 33 funders, grant income rose $20k → $893k.
19 of 106 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 SPACE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 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 SPACE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
43% 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 SPACE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 24% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
68% of BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 SPACE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 SPACE ALLIANCE: 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 SPACE ALLIANCE?
- BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,458,340 to it, the largest being PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($600,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $4,458,340 in grants to BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE?
- PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 106 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