Indiana · Nonprofit
BRICKS ALLIANCE INC
BRICKS ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,493 to it, the largest being THE BRAVE HEART FOUNDATION INC ($29,900). 4 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
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Bricks Alliance Inc does
Mission
Circles Indy is a community-driven program that works to increase upward mobility for individuals and families in poverty in Indianapolis. Based on the national Circles(R)USA model, the Circles initiative builds intentional relationships (social capital) across socioeconomic lines that help open up long-term pathways for economic mobility and self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Circles conducts poverty simulations at local churches, social service agencies, medical school programs and colleges. this approach helps their staff and volunteers to understand how hard it is to escape poverty
$1,874 spent2% of program spendingBricks Alliance has introduced a new approach to volunteering. The emphasis is on developing a 2 way relationship between volunteer and the person being served. The approach is taught at workshops
$0 spent0% of program spendingBricks operates a Thriving to Surviving Program for group of individuals in poverty with goal to improve their financial stability and life skills. Includes 12=14 weeks of training followed by 15 months of intentional friendship volunteers walking alongside the participants in their journey
$79,886 spent98% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,760.
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 2019 to 2020, from $27k to $58k (+114%).
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.
78% of BRICKS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Marie Wiese
Exec. Director
Board chair
Margaret Kantz
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.
3 of 8 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 BRICKS ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 8 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
BRICKS ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 BRICKS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of BRICKS ALLIANCE INC'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BRICKS ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRICKS ALLIANCE INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRICKS ALLIANCE INC: 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 BRICKS ALLIANCE INC?
- BRICKS ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,493 to it, the largest being THE BRAVE HEART FOUNDATION INC ($29,900). 4 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 BRICKS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $61,493 in grants to BRICKS ALLIANCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRICKS ALLIANCE INC?
- THE BRAVE HEART FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRICKS ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 8 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