Virginia · Nonprofit
BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS
BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,447 to it, the largest being The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Braws Bringing Resources to Aid Women's Shelters does
Mission
Braws mission is to bring dignity and empowerment to women and girls experiencing poverty and homelessness by supplying menstrual products and new undergarments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided much-needed feminine items including bras, underwear, and menstrual products to more than 75 shelters, schools, pantries, and other charitable organizations throughout the washington metropolitan area. Access to these essential items supports the health, dignity, and full participation of women and girls in school, work, and everyday life.
$340,591 spentof which $262,055 as grants$192,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,591.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $252k to $388k (+54%).
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.
82% of BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 Sterling
Executive director
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 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $50k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
84% 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 BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 75% · 2019 93% · 2020 41% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 40% — 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
22% of BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
50% of BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS'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 $194k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS has grown faster than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS?
- BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,447 to it, the largest being The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $390,447 in grants to BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS?
- The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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