Tennessee · Private foundation
Bradford Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $305,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Bradford Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $924k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $368k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $696k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $601k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $1,010,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $711,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $674,550 | 4 | 1% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $84,178 | 4 | 0% |
| St Bonaventure University | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $53,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity School Inc | $49,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Frontline Policy Council Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Berkeley Institute | $40,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($734k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bradford Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Danner Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Bradford Family Foundation
- How much does Bradford Family Foundation give?
- Bradford Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $1,152,511 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bradford Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (22%), Religion (3%).
- Who are Bradford Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Vanderbilt University ($1.0M), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art ($711k), Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($675k).
- Does Bradford Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does 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 Bradford Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is Bradford Family Foundation based?
- Bradford Family Foundation is based in TN.
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