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Breathe Bravely Inc

Breathe Bravely Inc (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,145 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($76,975). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$115k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$264k
Net assets
$25k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Breathe Bravely Inc does

Mission

Dedicated to giving voice to Cystic Fibrosis. Individuals come together as one voice through music.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. SINGSPIRE. Program combating cystic fibrosis throughthe art of singing.

    $40,576 spent
    91% of program spending
  2. Cystic Fibrosis FoundationCommunity Support Grant

    $4,200 spentof which $19,275 as grants
    9% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,776.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2020 Revenue 112 ($80k) Expenses 88 ($66k) Net assets 153 ($40k)2021 Revenue 121 ($86k) Expenses 108 ($81k) Net assets 174 ($46k)2022 Revenue 164 ($117k) Expenses 131 ($98k) Net assets 246 ($65k)2023 Revenue 122 ($87k) Expenses 165 ($123k) Net assets 108 ($29k)2024 Revenue 162 ($115k) Expenses 159 ($119k) Net assets 95 ($25k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (162)Expenses (159)Net assets (95)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 2022 to 2023, from $65k to $29k (−56%).

$26k
$40k
$46k
$65k
$29k
$25k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Breathe Bravely Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’19
$14k
’20
$6k
’21
$19k
’22
−$37k
’23
−$3k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Ashley Ballou-Bonnema

Founder and Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $29k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Breathe Bravely 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

Breathe Bravely Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 Breathe Bravely Inc.

29%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 62% — 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

83% of Breathe Bravely Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Breathe Bravely Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 4 states in all.

MN
MD
NC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
South Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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

Breathe Bravely Inc has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Breathe Bravely Inc?
Breathe Bravely Inc (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,145 to it, the largest being CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ($76,975). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Breathe Bravely Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $264,145 in grants to Breathe Bravely Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Breathe Bravely Inc?
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Breathe Bravely Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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