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Bradford Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
33
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$252kAnimals$132kHealth$56kEducation$40kYouth Development$29kInternational$26kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k97 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHEDRAL$4,000
SACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSION$4,000
PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART$4,000
FRANCISCAN MISSIONS$3,500
FOOD FOR THE POOR$2,500
ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL$2,500
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$2,000
THE SEEING EYE$2,000
HOMES FOR VETERANS INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ORPHAN ACRES: $500 → 16%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $1k → 12%THE ECO FOUNDATION: $500 → 22%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $500 → 8%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $2k → 26%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $1k → 12%CARES: $2k → 13%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $1k → 26%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%CARES: $1k → 13%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $500 → 26%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 7%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$542k · 145 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
95

Total granted

$542k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

54%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SR
    SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +37%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +66%
  • PP
    PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • HJ
    HOLY JOE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
3
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
4
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
5
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
6
Peace 4 Animals

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…

Animals
7
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
8
World Vets

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…

Animals
9
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
10
Animal Defenders International Inc Us

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.

Animals
11
Animal Freedom Inc

The organization works to create a world where all animals have their freedom respected by society and protected in law.

Animals
12
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/145
Grantees still filing
99/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHEDRAL BASILICA: $69,413 · OtherCATHEDRAL BASILICAOUR LADY OF SORROWS: $32,400 · OtherOUR LADY OF SORROWSADELANTE YOUTH MISSION: $26,621 · OtherADELANTE YOUTH MISSIONST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $25,250 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $22,480 · Other+112 more: $284,240 · Other+112 moreGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $3,500 · AnimalsDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $3,500 · AnimalsAnimals' Angels Incorporated: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 · Animals+43 more: $62,208 · Animals+43 moreSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $6,500 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $4,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · InternationalAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $4,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 · InternationalMercy Corps: $1,500 · InternationalMAP International Inc: $1,500 · InternationalBREAD AND WATER FOR AFRICA INC: $1,500 · International+5 more: $4,500 · InternationalGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesCARES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesWyoming Catholic College: $15,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · EducationOPEN UP RESOURCES: $2,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationSOLDIER STRONG INC: $1,500 · EducationST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · HealthPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $3,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEET: $1,500 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000 · HealthPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES: $5,010 · Religion
Other$460,404Animals$83,208International$33,500Human Services$27,000Education$23,500Health$12,500Religion$10,510

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWyoming Catholic College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES: $5,010 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE KOREAN DOGS USA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimals' Angels Incorporated: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN UP RESOURCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEROBOX INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Place: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHOW-ME INSTITUTE: $2,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork for Animals USA Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISEBLOOD BOOKS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
  • Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seckinger Foundation …PC Fund for Animals C…Surendra and Karen Gu…Joyce a Ward Foundati…Farrell Family Founda…The Susan and Ford Sc…John R Oltman Charita…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Gerald B Shreiber…The Patricia Florence…Paula Knickerbocker F…The J R Stein Family …
Seckinger Foundation CorporationFL71.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bradford Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bradford Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 276 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home