California · Nonprofit
FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION
FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,967 to it, the largest being California Eastern Star Foundation ($103,067). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Fly Brave Foundation does
Mission
The Fly Brave Foundations mission is to provide free services programs resources and social events to adults with developmental disabilities who have aged out of the school system. The programs offered include 1 Hands-on career and vocational training at our thrift store and cafe; 2 Social and life skills classes; 3 Events prom dances karaoke fashion show art show talent show; 4 Workshops art cooking public speaking; and 5 Fitness Programs police collab fitness programs run club local 5k races and training etc. in promoting a healthy lifestyle; 7 Social outings field trips and travel for clients to engage in opportunities that broaden their horizon and foster career passion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Fly Brave purchased a mobile coffee cart and created a barista training program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Fly Brave Store: Fly Braves brick-and-mortar location is an upscale thrift store that offers hands-on career and vocational training in a retail setting for adults with developmental disabilities aged 18 and above. The store serves as a platform for these adults to produce and sell art pieces. Fly Brave supports clients by covering the costs of supplies needed to learn all aspects of managing a micro-enterprise business. The store maintains its partnership with local high school transition programs engaging 12 young adults from the Sacramento City School District in its job training initiative. Three clients obtained employment and two were hired as consultants through our graphic arts program. In 2024 25 young adults successfully completed Fly Braves job training program.
$109,250 spent$64,958 earned by the program65% of program spendingFly Braves Art Program offers Community Murals Graphic Design Workshops Classes and Art Shows. This program serves as both an employment training initiative for individuals with developmental disabilities and a social hub for artists to convene and craft in a secure setting. Art workshops are complimentary and cater to artists aged 18 and above on Thursday mornings at our store and on Saturday mornings for individuals of all ages at the local community center. Fly Brave supplies all necessary materials and provides a light snack. In 2024 the program served 75 families. Artists designed two t-shirt collections jewelry accessories and canvas art showcased at various marketplace events. The Community Mural Project Program continued and logos were crafted for local small businesses in the neighborhood.
$29,292 spent17% of program spendingFly Brave Cafe: Over three years Fly Brave board members and volunteers renovated an existing coffee shop linked to its thrift store. The cafe operates as a barista training program for neurodiverse adults keen on food service coffee and related interests.
$11,106 spent7% of program spendingTheater program
$1,065 spent1% of program spendingOffice and Tech program
$2,560 spent2% of program spendingPop Up Market marketplace job training
$1,515 spent1% of program spendingTech
$1,785 spent1% of program spendingClient transportation auto and travel
$11,762 spent7% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,335.
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 $18k to $161k (+819%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 14% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION’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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $51k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION’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
FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 61% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: 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 FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION?
- FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,967 to it, the largest being California Eastern Star Foundation ($103,067). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $204,967 in grants to FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION?
- California Eastern Star Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $103,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2024), 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