Maine · Private foundation
Bradley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $270k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Bradley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $41k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $42k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $36k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $88k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $61k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetinghouse Arts | $93,366 | 6 | 18% |
| Labyrinth Training Center | $34,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Freeport Historical Society | $13,600 | 5 | 3% |
| Freeport Community Services | $10,175 | 6 | 0% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $9,063 | 5 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Freeport Speech | $1,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Vassar College | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetinghouse Arts | $93,366 | 6 | 18% |
| Labyrinth Training Center | $34,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Freeport Historical Society | $13,600 | 5 | 3% |
| Freeport Community Services | $10,175 | 6 | 0% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $9,063 | 5 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Freeport Speech | $1,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Vassar College | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Through These Doors | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoyt Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Partners for World Health | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freeport Community Players | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Freeport Conservation Trust | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Harraseeket Yacht Club | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Maine Justice Foundation | $500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bradley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Bradley Family Foundation
- How much does Bradley Family Foundation give?
- Bradley Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $40,821 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bradley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Human Services (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are Bradley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Meetinghouse Arts ($93k), Labyrinth Training Center ($34k), Good Shepherd Food Bank ($15k).
- Does Bradley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bradley 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 Bradley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation, Albert B Glickman Family Foundation.
- Where is Bradley Family Foundation based?
- Bradley Family Foundation is based in ME.
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