Brave New Build
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872732200
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Venice, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2137180892
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $1,365
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $5,161
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA BLANCHARD (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- JOSHUA BLANCHARD (President & CEO)
- ROBERT LAPORTA (Secretary)
- ZACHARY HOEVET (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to build new affordable homes in areas devastated by wildfires. The organization will provide home design and consulting, and will use non-combustable building materials. The goal is to transform the home building industry to create homes that are safe, sustainable and a source of pride for their owners.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization was formed in late 2021 and spent the time since then on matters related to establishing the organization. The founder spent time networking in communities of need and with potential business partners. No programs were ever run nor were any exempt purpose achievements realized. By the end of 2025 no programs were ever implemented and the entity shut down operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.