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Bradberry Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $300,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS | $12,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON USA | $12,000 |
| MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WALTON ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY SMA | $3,000 |
| ANIMAL LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $2,000 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY LOS RICOS | $2,000 |
| AACF IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| FRIENDS OF CASITA LINDA AC INC | $1,250 |
| FUNDS FOR THE BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA IN | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| MADGALENE SERENITY HOUSE | $1,124 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Bradberry Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +335% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MSMAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $228k · revenue +335% · 33% of their budget
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH3× · 2017–2020 · $56k
- FOFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue -64%
Funded once
- NANORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +12%
- UOUAB-UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINone grant, 2020 · $45k
- WRWASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Serve the needs of the children of mexico
Provide spiritual, physical, medical, and humanitarian aid and relief to the indigent, homesless, distressed, and underprivileged children in third world countries. specifically without limitation to the country of honduras.
Provide medicine and food
Mcca is dedicated to helping needy children through the provision of food and bibles to christian missionaries at orphanages, daycare centers, and other christian ministries that focus on the needs of children and families, so that the…
The northwest arkansas women's shelter is committed to serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering them to build lives free of violence.
Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.
Provide assistance to the poor and needy in central and south america. provide assistance with dental needs, housing, construction of homes, and education on malnutrition for mothers with newborn babies.
To raise donations and support for providing housing, education, care support for children in the Reynosa Mexico area who are in need of refuge.
Mexico orphanage
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
The organization provides housing medical care education and loving support for homeless children in peru. the home is located in arequipa peru. the organization houses approximately 50 children and assists children no longer residing at…
Casa de salud provides health care services to low-income, indigent and underserved populations in new mexico. primary care, counseling, acupuncture, massage, reiki, addictions treatment, syringe exchange, medical debt management, case…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Miguel-Casa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Safety Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds FTC INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SOURCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDS FOR THE BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Schmieding Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International · Network for Good · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bradberry Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.