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Bradley D and Deborah R Howard 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.

$28k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$11k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Bradley D and Deborah R Howard Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Bradley D and Deborah R Howard Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of BRADLEY D AND DEBORAH R HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$890k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI$10,850
YELLOWSTONE COMMUNITY CLUB FOUNDATI$10,000
PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,100
GLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$150
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$100
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$50
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$50
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $250 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
04Your field

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.

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Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
2
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
3
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

6
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Yellowstone Club Community Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA WOODEN ATHLETIC FUND — $20,000 · OtherUCLA WOODEN ATHLETIC FUNDPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATIONMending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $10,000 · OtherMending Kids International dba Mending KidsYELLOWSTONE COMMUNITY CLUB FOUNDATI — $10,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE COMMUNITY CLUB FOUNDATI+5 more — $2,700 · OtherYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUND…SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $10,850 · EducationSPECIAL OPE…HOME AGAIN LOS ANGELES — $4,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $100 · Housing & ShelterWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,600 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $250 · Human Services+1 more — $50 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50 · Public Benefit
Other$57,700Philanthropy$30,000Education$10,850Housing & Shelter$4,100Human Services$2,900Health$150Public Benefit$50

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $10,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOME AGAIN LOS ANGELES — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bradley D and Deborah R Howard 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bradley D and Deborah R Howard Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bradley D and Deborah R Howard Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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