Kentucky · Private foundation
Beth Bradford Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Beth Bradford Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $91k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $90k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $50k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $50k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Moravian Open Door Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Bowling Green Area Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Casa of South Central Kentucky Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Meals Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Smile Train Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Barren River Area Safe Space Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ridgecrest Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Beth Bradford Family Foundation
- How much does Beth Bradford Family Foundation give?
- Beth Bradford Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Beth Bradford Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), International (18%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Beth Bradford Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($60k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($40k), Moravian Open Door Inc ($20k).
- Does Beth Bradford Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beth Bradford Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Beth Bradford Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Beth Bradford Family Foundation based?
- Beth Bradford Family Foundation is based in KY.
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