· Private foundation
Bradford Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k97 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CATHEDRAL BASILICA | $14,876 |
| OUR LADY OF SORROWS | $11,000 |
| ADELANTE YOUTH MISSION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,240 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART | $4,000 |
| SACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSION | $4,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHEDRAL | $4,000 |
| FRANCISCAN MISSIONS | $3,500 |
| ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL | $2,500 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $2,500 |
| THE SEEING EYE | $2,000 |
| HOMES FOR VETERANS INC | $2,000 |
| WISEBLOOD BOOKS | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +66%
- SRSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +37%
- PPPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- HJHOLY JOE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUISone grant, 2020 · $6k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMESone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
To educate, create awareness, promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice & the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals, to alleviate suffering, conserve and protect animals in their environment.
The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.
Protection of animal rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Oxford Review Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
145 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. 145 of the 276 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund)
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 Bradford 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.