· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
497 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Speech First Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bradley Impact Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bradley Impact Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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