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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by BRAWS-BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMENS SHELTERS.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 6 December 2024. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue
$329,825
Total expenses
$368,187
Contributions and grants received
$257,835
Grants paid
$216,752
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$71,990
Total assets, end of year
$257,792
Total liabilities, end of year
$40,294
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$217,498
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$285,472
Management and general expenses
$63,522
Fundraising expenses
$19,193
Program service expenses (Part III)
$285,472

Program services were 77.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $257,835

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $60,615

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $91,933

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $19,943

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $71,990 · excluded $71,990

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $216,752 · program services $216,752

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $64,123 · program services $39,179 · management and general $17,847 · fundraising $7,097

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $4,953 · program services $3,026 · management and general $1,379 · fundraising $548

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $32,865 · program services $18,760 · management and general $10,155 · fundraising $3,950

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,500 · management and general $3,500

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $4,024 · program services $1,000 · management and general $3,024

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $3,228 · management and general $338 · fundraising $2,890

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $335 · management and general $127 · fundraising $208

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,099 · program services $1,173 · management and general $549 · fundraising $377

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $1,010 · management and general $1,010

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $26,090 · program services $5,024 · management and general $21,066

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $36 · program services $36

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,113 · management and general $1,113

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,771 · program services $126 · management and general $1,645

  • 24a · Other expenses: DUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $5,692 · program services $396 · management and general $1,493 · fundraising $3,803

  • 24b · Other expenses: TAXES AND LICENSES

    total $276 · management and general $276

  • 24c · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMEN

    total $165 · fundraising $165

  • 24d · Other expenses: BAD DEBT

    total $155 · fundraising $155

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $279,674 · end of year $224,770

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $43,703 · end of year $27,757

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $2,081 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $4,539

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $3,055

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,597 · end of year $1,484

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $1,900 · end of year $3,781

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $39,199 · end of year $28,952

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $34,896 · end of year $11,342

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year -$38,362

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

BRAWS MISSION IS TO BRING DIGNITY AND EMPOWERMENT TO WOMEN AND GIRLS LIVING IN SHELTERS BY PROVIDING NEW, PERSONALLY FITTED UNDERGARMENTS AND MENSTRUAL SUPPLIES. THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST REQUESTED CRITICAL NEEDS BY WOMEN IN SHELTERS. THESE ITEMS ARE RARELY DONATED, EXPENSIVE FOR SHELTERS TO REPLENISH, AND NOT COVERED BY FOOD STAMPS. INSUFFICIENT ACCESS TO THESE ITEMS OFTEN LEADS TO UNSANITARY CONDITIONS AND HEALTH PROBLEMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO WOMEN AND TEENAGERS IN HOMELESS SITUATIONS BY SUPPLYING UNDERGARMENTS AND FEMININE HYGIENE SUPPLIES.

  • PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED FEMININE ITEMS SUCH AS BRAS, UNDERWEAR, AND FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO NUMEROUS WOMEN'S SHELTERS THROUGHOUT THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA.

    Expenses $285,472 · Grants $216,752 · Revenue $196,971

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Tara Bloch

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $16,229
    From this org
    $16,229
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Jennifer Min

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Amanda Brown

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ginger Dockery

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Olga Woltman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kari Govan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rahul Saha

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yulia Boyle

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
9 July 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202441949349301419

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