North Carolina · Nonprofit
BRAVEWORKS
BRAVEWORKS (North Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,939 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($315,525). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $914k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $317k
What Braveworks does
Mission
Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. Our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to purpose through: - impactful connections,inspired creations and economic confidence. We work with women in the us as well as africa and south/central america, empowering them through purposeful work, economic mobility, personal/professional development, and connection to resources/social capital, all while helping them to heal from their trauma. The women we serve are overcoming trafficking, abuse, addiction, incarceration, poverty and ethnic persecution. They come to us broken, with their confidence shattered. We offer a judgement-free zone where they are welcomed just as they are. We introduce them to staff, volunteers and peers from different walks of life, having come through a wide array of circumstances and/or traumas, and help them develop a suppor
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We accomplish our mission by providing part-time transitional employment and purposeful work along with personal and professional development to women overcoming trafficking, abuse, addiction, incarceration, poverty and ethnic persecution. The women we serve are referred by non-profit and ngo partners specializing in these various traumas. We introduce the women to a diverse community where they learn transferable work-readiness skills, receive emotional support, expand their social capital and gain access to the economic ladder, often for the first time in their lives. There are optional opportunities for spiritual growth and we serve regardless of age, race, sexual identity, religion or national origin. Women work with our team to identify and achieve life goals such as education, employment, stable housing, skill development, financial literacy, esl, emotional health, continued sobriety, healthy community, and more. These women emerge from our program confident in their worth and abilities and equipped with the resources needed to maintain their newly achieved goals. Program graduates join our alumni program where they receive continued support, community and resources, and…
$577,326 spent$185,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $577,326.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $322k to $481k (+49%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of BRAVEWORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Chuck Cooper
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $53k → $132k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 BRAVEWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
BRAVEWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 BRAVEWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 32% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% — 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
43% of BRAVEWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
51% of BRAVEWORKS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $540k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k 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
BRAVEWORKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAVEWORKS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAVEWORKS: 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 BRAVEWORKS?
- BRAVEWORKS (North Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,939 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($315,525). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRAVEWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,100,939 in grants to BRAVEWORKS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAVEWORKS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $315,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAVEWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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