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Brady Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$329kArts & Culture$83kReligion$82kFood & Nutrition$39kRecreation & Sports$34kHuman Services$32kHealth$22kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Weber State University$29,000
University of Utah$22,000
University of Utah Athletics Depart$10,000
BYU College of Music$6,000
Snow College$4,000
Utah Womens Lacrosse Team$3,000
Utah Food Bank$3,000
Waterford School$2,000
Crossroads Urban Center$2,000
Utah Symphony Opera$2,000
Sandy Museum$2,000
The INN Between$2,000
For the Kids$2,000
Bear River Valley Museum$2,000
Salvation Army$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%A FRIENDS HOUSE INC: $6k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $2k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $1k → 8%The INN Between: $2k → 8%Assistance Leage of Salt Lake City: $1k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $1k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $1k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$533k · 24 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$533k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+3%

Still filing today

29%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionScience & TechOther

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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +95%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +19%
  • UY
    UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CO
    CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2021 · $76k
  • AF
    A FRIENDS HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +48%
  • SL
    SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah

Big brothers big sisters of utah's vision is that all children achieve success in life. our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Education
2
Utah Afterschool Network

Uan is a catalyst for building strong, safe, and healthy afterschool/out- of-school time programs to support youth, families, and communities. uan has three main objectives. first, to create a sustainable structure of statewide, regional,…

Youth Development
3
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Medical Association

The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.

5
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
6
Utah Regional Housing Corporation

Provide housing to low-income families in provo, utah.

Housing & Shelter
7
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
8
United Way of Northern Utah

We unite people and organizations to build a healthy, stable, and well-educated community.

Philanthropy
9
Girl Scouts of Utah

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
10
Utah School Counselor Association

The utah school counselor association represents the profession of school counseling. the association expresses a united and single voice for school counseling in the state of utah. usca believe that guidance and counseling must be an…

Education
11
United Way of Greater Salt Lake

United way of salt lake (uwsl) mobilizes people and resources to support basic needs and education.

Human Services
12
Utah Safety Council

The mission of the Utah Safety Council is to save lives by promoting safety and health through education, services, and products.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Music School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Utah Symphony & Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $177,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $129,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL BSA — $75,900 · OtherCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL BSAUTAH FOOD BANK — $31,900 · OtherUniversity of Utah Athletics Depart — $24,900 · OtherSnow College — $21,000 · Other+23 more — $147,100 · Other+23 moreUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $6,000 · Human ServicesA FRIENDS HOUSE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $2,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $1,000 · Human ServicesUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUniversity Hospital Foundation — $3,000 · PhilanthropyFOR THE KIDS ORG — $2,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ASME FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Science & Tech
Other$607,000Human Services$18,000Arts & Culture$13,000Philanthropy$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Science & Tech$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $31,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA FRIENDS HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING IN HIS NAME MINISTRIES INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity Hospital Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR THE KIDS ORG — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASME FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UTAH FOOD BANK
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE
  • Who funds A FRIENDS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HELPING IN HIS NAME MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds University Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN
  • Who funds FOR THE KIDS ORG
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds THE ASME FOUNDATION INC

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.

Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable FoundationUT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Ashton Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Preston G Hughes Foundation Inc · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association

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 Brady Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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