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BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE

EIN 84-4538090 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2025
$3,472,581
Expenses 2025
$2,885,044

Program services were 49.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P88
Classification
2000
Street
1515 E 52ND PL 3RD FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE IS A SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY PROVIDING AFFIRMING, CULTURALLY COMPETENT, FOR-US BY-US RESOURCES, PROGRAMMING, AND SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITHIN CHICAGO'S SOUTH AND WEST SIDE COMMUNITIES. WE EMPOWER, EMBOLDEN, AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY THROUGH WRAP-AROUND SERVICES, KNOWLEDGE-SHARING AND COMMUNITY-SOURCED RESOURCES.

  • HEALTH AND WELLNESS: ONSITE HIV AND STI TESTING, MEDICAL REFERRALS, LINKAGE TO PREP, HEALTH LITERACY EDUCATION MATERIALS, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SUPPORT SESSIONS, SUPPORT GROUPS, AND INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS WITH PROVIDERS.

    Expenses $244,162

  • FOOD PANTRY: BSA'S COMMUNITY PANTRY SERVES AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOOD SYSTEM THAT REACHES INDIVIDUALS WHO FALL OUTSIDE OF EXISTING SERVICES AVAILABLE TO POPULATIONS EXPERIENCING HUNGER IN CHICAGO. WE PARTNER WITH DOZENS OF LOCAL RESTAURANTS, FOOD RE-DISTRIBUTORS, AND LOCAL, BIPOC-RUN FARMS TO PROVIDE 3,000+ LBS OF FOOD BIWEEKLY.

    Expenses $159,017

  • HOUSING: THE JASMINE ALEXANDER HOUSING BUILDING OFFERS TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT FOR UP TO 5 HOUSING-INSECURE INDIVIDUALS FOR 6-12 MONTH TEMPORARY HOUSING. PROGRAMMING ALSO INCLUDES FINANCIAL LITERACY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $127,139

  • IDENTITY & DIGNITY: THE DIGNITY SUITE (ROOMS OFFERING FREE, GENDER-AFFIRMING CLOTHING, ACCESSORIES, AND HYGIENE ITEMS), FREE BARBER AND BEAUTICIAN SERVICES, FREE TRANSIT PASSES, ASSISTANCE ENROLLING IN SNAP AND OTHER BENEFITS, POP-UP NAME CHANGE CLINICS, AND BALLROOM EVENTS AND CLASSES.

    Expenses $107,918

  • OTHER VARIOUS PROGRAM SERVICES.

    Expenses $799,833 · Revenue $23,909

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kevin Pleasant

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lilly Wachowski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jordan Enos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Josie Lynne Paul

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Crispin Torres

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kaitlin Weiss-Metos

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Myles Brady-Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Brian Thompson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Maliyah Arnold

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Dawn Valenti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Erica Avant

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Channyn Parker

    EMERITUS CEO

    Total calculated
    $135,839
    From this org
    $126,417
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,422
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nicole Patin

    INTERIM CEO

    Total calculated
    $34,950
    From this org
    $34,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Marvin Thompson

    DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE, CULTURE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $80,900
    From this org
    $73,374
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,526
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gaylon Alcaraz

    INTERIM COO

    Total calculated
    $49,356
    From this org
    $49,356
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,472,581
    Expenses
    $2,885,044
    Contributions
    $3,477,953
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,259,101
    Expenses
    $2,797,742
    Contributions
    $2,276,249
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,917,303
    Expenses
    $2,456,557
    Contributions
    $1,616,406
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,325,203
    Expenses
    $2,797,430
    Contributions
    $2,299,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,325,203
    Expenses
    $2,797,430
    Contributions
    $2,299,566
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,270,318
    Expenses
    $2,343,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,936,601

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,771,543
    Expenses
    $1,955,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,624,853

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,822,035
    Expenses
    $1,163,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,658,534

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.