NoahBRAVE Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862429764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Franklin, TN, USA
- Phone
- 3343329044
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $216,721
- Expenses
- $230,086
- Assets
- $118,744
- Liabilities
- $642
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas D Evans (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Thomas D Evans (Vice President)
- Laurel Bennett (Trustee)
- Martin Bennett (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide personalized support, raise awareness, and fund research for children and families affected by terminal brain cancer, honoring Noah's life by ensuring families know they are seen, loved, and not alone.
What it reported doing in 2025
NoahBRAVE exists to help families as they navigate this journey with tangible financial burdens like, but not limited to, paying for rent or mortgage, groceries, utilities, car expenses, medical bills, and travel for clinical trials and wish experiences. NoahBRAVE also funds a program, My DIPG Nurse Navigator, which was created by families who have walked the journey. It pairs highly trained nurses, who are very familiar with DIPG, with families facing the battle to help them make informed decisions about available clinical trials & treatment options at no cost to the family. NoahBRAVE raises much needed awareness of pediatric brain tumors, namely Diffuse Midline Gliomas, through social media campaigns, fundraising events, and sharing stories of the brave warriors fighting or who have fought this disease. Since the foundation of NoahBRAVEs work, we have been able to provide tangible financial support, emotional support, connection and hope to over 260 families facing terminal brain cancer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.6%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.6% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $209K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.