BraveWorks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320423402
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- Phone
- (866) 278-6894
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $913,725
- Expenses
- $792,299
- Assets
- $581,388
- Liabilities
- $264,427
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BETH BELL (FORMER EXE D): $48,474 total reported compensation
- KYLA HARVEY (EXECUTIVE DI): $26,274 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower and equip women overcoming trauma, bridging the gap from pain to purpose.
What it reported doing in 2024
We accomplish our mission by providing part-time transitional employment and purposeful work along with personal and professional development to women overcoming trafficking, abuse, addiction, incarceration, poverty and ethnic persecution. The women we serve are referred by non-profit and NGO partners specializing in these various traumas. We introduce the women to a diverse community where they learn transferable work-readiness skills, receive emotional support, expand their social capital and gain access to the economic ladder, often for the first time in their lives. There are optional opportunities for spiritual growth and we serve regardless of age, race, sexual identity, religion or national origin. Women work with our team to identify and achieve life goals such as education, employment, stable housing, skill development, financial literacy, esl, emotional health, continued sobriety, healthy community, and more. These women emerge from our program confident in their worth and abilities and equipped with the resources needed to maintain their newly achieved goals. Program graduates join our alumni program where they receive continued support, community and resources, and employment opportunities are available for graduates to join our lead and advanced artisan programs. Our graduates tell us that through our program they are able to move back into society full of hope and well-equipped to navigate their future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $577K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.