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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LABYRINTH TRAINING CENTER | $15,000 |
| MEETINGHOUSE ARTS | $5,500 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| WOLFE'S NECK CENTER | $2,000 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $1,821 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THROUGH THESE DOORS | $1,000 |
| FREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| HOYT FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| THOMAS MEANS CLUB | $1,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $500 |
| MID COAST HUNGER PREVENTION PROGRAM | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- FCFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +114%
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +46%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust2× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S LACROSSEone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +53%
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.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freeport Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 37 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
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 MEETINGHOUSE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LABYRINTH TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Freeport Speech ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds HOYT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Freeport Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
- Who funds Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Harraseeket Yacht Club ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds MAINE JUSTICE 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: 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
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.
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