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BRAVELOVE INC

BRAVELOVE INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,914 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($158,200). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$342k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$772k
Net assets
$366k
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Bravelove Inc does

Mission

To change the perception of adoption through honest, informative and hopeful communication conveying the heroism and bravery a birth mother displays when she places her child with a loving family through adoption.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. BraveLove's primary program services focus on supporting birth mothers, equipping professionals, and educating the public about adoption. Through its Birth Mom Support initiatives, including Birth Mom Dinners hosted nationwide, BraveLove provides safe spaces for connection, and community, serving approximately 245 birth mothers in 2025. Through its Educational Resources and Professional Outreach, BraveLove distributes free, evidence-informed materials to pregnancy centers, adoption agencies, and healthcare providers, with over 18,000 resources shared nationwide in 2025 to improve understanding of adoption and support women exploring their options. Additionally, through Storytelling and Public Education, BraveLove produces and shares video and written content that elevates the voices of birth mothers and presents a more accurate, compassionate view of adoption, having reached over 3,000,000 individuals through digital platforms and partnerships.

    $305,958 spent$347,436 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $305,958.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($271k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2018 Revenue 103 ($317k) Expenses 88 ($237k) Net assets 156 ($222k)2019 Revenue 110 ($339k) Expenses 129 ($349k) Net assets 150 ($213k)2020 Revenue 124 ($381k) Expenses 108 ($292k) Net assets 212 ($302k)2021 Revenue 113 ($348k) Expenses 109 ($296k) Net assets 249 ($354k)2022 Revenue 119 ($367k) Expenses 137 ($372k) Net assets 245 ($350k)2023 Revenue 163 ($501k) Expenses 153 ($414k) Net assets 307 ($437k)2024 Revenue 174 ($535k) Expenses 171 ($462k) Net assets 358 ($510k)2025 Revenue 111 ($342k) Expenses 179 ($486k) Net assets 257 ($366k)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (179)Net assets (257)Peer revenue range

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 $512k to $373k (−27%).

$143k
$224k
$215k
$303k
$355k
$366k
$444k
$512k
$373k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

101% of BRAVELOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
$80k
’18
−$9k
’19
$89k
’20
$52k
’21
−$5k
’22
$88k
’23
$72k
’24
−$143k
’25
8.9
months of
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

Janelle Basham

Executive Director

Board chair

Travis Brewer

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1311111199799
Joined·+2+1+2+0+1+0+6+0
No longer listed·41221240
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $116k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 BRAVELOVE 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

BRAVELOVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

30% 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 BRAVELOVE INC.

20%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 60% · 2019 38% · 2020 70% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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

21% of BRAVELOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of BRAVELOVE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NY
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRAVELOVE INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−42% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 4%Fundraising 33%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRAVELOVE INC?
BRAVELOVE INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,914 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($158,200). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRAVELOVE INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $771,914 in grants to BRAVELOVE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRAVELOVE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $158,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRAVELOVE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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