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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.

$992k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
77%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Bradley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$892k77%
FY20221$6k0%
FY20211$4k0%
FY20201$6k0%
FY20195$22k20%
FY201810$36k30%
FY201713$57kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$430kEducation$320kReligion$203kHuman Services$55kHealth$35kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Westminster Schools Inc$150,00010%
Savannah Country Day School Inc$100,00010%
All Saints Episcopal Church$77,5002n/a
Spelman College$65,00010%
Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church$41,9011n/a
The Salvation Army$39,5004n/a
United Way of the Coastal Empire$30,00030%
Union Mission Inc$25,00010%
Wesley Community Centers Inc$15,00011%
America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc$15,00010%
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All grantees of Bradley Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Westminster Schools Inc$150,00010%
Savannah Country Day School Inc$100,00010%
All Saints Episcopal Church$77,5002n/a
Spelman College$65,00010%
Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church$41,9011n/a
The Salvation Army$39,5004n/a
United Way of the Coastal Empire$30,00030%
Union Mission Inc$25,00010%
Wesley Community Centers Inc$15,00011%
America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc$15,00010%
Forward Arts Foundation Inc$12,50010%
Senior Citizens Inc$10,00010%
Historic Savannah Foundation Inc$9,00030%
Hospice Savannah Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Savannah Music Festivalinc$2,50020%
Chatham Transitional Ministries Inc$2,5001n/a
Telfair Museum of Art Inc$2,50010%
The Mighty Eighth Foundation Inc$2,00021%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Georgia Historical Society$1,50010%
Lighthouse Baptist Church$1,0001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($414k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bradley Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah Country Day School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpelman College: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Coastal Empire: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Mission Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWesley Community Centers Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerica's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForward Arts Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Savannah Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHospice Savannah Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah Music Festivalinc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTelfair Museum of Art Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mighty Eighth Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Byck-Rothschild Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Adler Family Foundation Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Bradley Foundation Inc 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.

About Bradley Foundation Inc

How much does Bradley Foundation Inc give?
Bradley Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $991,901 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bradley Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Education (28%), Religion (18%).
Who are Bradley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Westminster Schools Inc ($150k), Savannah Country Day School Inc ($100k), All Saints Episcopal Church ($78k).
Does Bradley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bradley Foundation Inc 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 Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Savannah Community Foundation Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, Truist Foundation Inc.
Where is Bradley Foundation Inc based?
Bradley Foundation Inc is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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