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Brady Education Foundation Inc at a glance

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Brady Education Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$737k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$248k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$3.3MHealth$155kScience & Tech$75kHuman Services$518
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $607k
$55,147
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON COLLEGE$248,007
BUNCOMBE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$84,338
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$69,559
UC BERKELEYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY$55,147
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$49,754
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - GILLINGS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEA$40,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY - RISE$20,000
THE NYU METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EQUITY AND THE TRANSFORMATION O$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY - RIPENESS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $248k → 7%TRUST FOR LEARNING: $65k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $178k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $269k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $75k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE - EARLY CAREER MENTORING AND RESEARCH: $98k → 10%UC BERKELEYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 10%THE NYU METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EQUITY AND THE TRANSFORMATION O: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AS AUSTIN: $300k → 10%TEXAS A&M: $50k → 22%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $52k → 10%NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: $38k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - RACIAL EQUITY IN DISCIPLINE FOR BLACK STUDENTS: $126k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $8k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - IMPROVING EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS: $50k → 15%PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NORTH CAROLINA: $56k → 8%AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $150k → 9%CHILD CARE SERVICES ASSOCIATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY DONATION: $518 → 11%BUNCOMBE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $84k → 13%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 8%MMPI: $10k → 6%BOSTON COLLEGE: $120k → 7%TRUST FOR LEARNING: $40k → 16%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%UC BERKELEYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $51k → 10%THE CENTURY FOUNDATIONBRIDGES: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $164k → 10%NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE: $38k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - RACIAL EQUITY IN DISCIPLINE FOR BLACK STUDENTS: $123k → 16%GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $5k → 12%PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NORTH CAROLINA: $24k → 8%THE HUNT INSTITUTE: $35k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - GILLINGS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEA: $40k → 13%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $69k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY - RISE: $20k → 16%TRUST FOR LEARNING CO NEW VENTURE FUND: $115k → 14%PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NORTH CAROLINA: $12k → 8%THE HUNT INSTITUTE: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - FRANK PORTER GRAHAM CHILD DEV: $227k → 13%TRUST FOR LEARNING CO NEW VENTURE FUND: $30k → 14%INVEST EARLY NC: $5k → 8%SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SRCD) PRE-CONFERENCE: $5k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MO
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-2%

Still filing today

40%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $364k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $368k · revenue +12%
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $92k · revenue +180%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AS AUSTIN
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - FRANK PORTER GRAHAM CHILD DEV
    one grant, 2024 · $227k
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2023 · $178k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Public School Forum of Nc Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $318,646 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AS AUSTIN: $299,662 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AS AUSTINMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - RACIAL EQUITY IN DISCIPLINE FOR BLACK STUDENTS: $249,266 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - RACIAL EQUITY IN DISCIPLINE FOR BLACK STUDENTSUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - FRANK PORTER GRAHAM CHILD DEV: $227,225 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - FRANK PORTER GRAHAM CHILD DEVUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $164,157 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH: $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCHTRUST FOR LEARNING CO NEW VENTURE FUND: $145,000 · OtherTRUST FOR LEARNING CO NEW VENTURE FUNDKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $138,360 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYUC BERKELEYKENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $105,752 · OtherTRUST FOR LEARNING: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE - EARLY CAREER MENTORING AND RESEARCH: $97,534 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $84,338 · Other+13 more: $299,287 · Other+13 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $368,032 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $177,853 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHBUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 · EducationBUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR C…PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $91,998 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA…JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN: $65,000 · EducationJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDU…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $52,430 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $49,754 · Education+1 more: $12,500 · EducationNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $75,000 · Science & Tech
Other$2,384,227Education$1,042,567Science & Tech$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $368,032 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $177,853 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $91,998 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $52,430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $49,754 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brady Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brady Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home