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Bradley Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $538k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| W WALDO AND JENNY LYNN M BRADLEY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS INC | $150,000 |
| SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $72,500 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $65,000 |
| HAGAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| WESLEY MONUMENTAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $41,901 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| UNION MISSION INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC | $15,000 |
| WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAVANNAH INC | $15,000 |
| FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +10%
- TMTHE MIGHTY EIGHTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +45%
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS SAVANNAH-CHATHAM INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HSHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -37%
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc. 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 68 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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.
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- Who funds FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
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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.
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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 Foundation Inc 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.
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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