· Public charity
Bradley Impact Fund Inc
The bradley impact fund is a donor-advised fund with a mission to serve as philanthropic advisors who educate, empower, and inspire donors to advance our common principles through high-impact giving and the protection of donor intent.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k128 grants · $649k
- $10k–50k176 grants · $3.4M
- $50k–250k68 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+30 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,389,921 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $5,000,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $3,014,050 |
| COUNTY CITIZENS DEFENDING FREEDOM USA FOUNDATION INC | $2,475,000 |
| EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $1,924,654 |
| MOMS FOR AMERICA | $1,701,000 |
| BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION | $1,516,399 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION | $1,078,847 |
| DO NO HARM | $1,010,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $900,000 |
| SPEECH FIRST | $700,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $650,000 |
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $607,000 |
| TORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $514,953 |
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 (FY18–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
316 repeat relationships — 215 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M 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
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue ×14
- AFAmerica First Legal Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $27M · revenue +401% · 61% of their budget
- FFFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education7× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue ×11
- SBSusan B Anthony List Education Fundgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +36%
- MCMAJELLA CARES DBA HEROIC MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue -12% · 31% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Questline Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
497 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. 497 of the 590 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Moms for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS DEFENDING FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds State Financial Officers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DO NO HARM ↗
- Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emergent Order Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Speech First Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
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: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Thomas W Smith Foundation 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 Impact Fund 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.