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Brady Family Foundation at a glance

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Brady Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$162kHuman Services$129kYouth Development$45kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$9kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$835k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST COUNTY$15,000
Walden Family Services$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$3,500
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION$3,000
BOYS TO MEN MENTORING$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%promises2kids: $25k → 11%ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $100 → 17%COUSTEAU SOCIETY: $450 → 10%promises2kids: $25k → 11%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $21k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $4k → 11%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%promises2kids: $3k → 11%VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO HOSPICE: $1k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%YMCA: $4k → 11%YMCA: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO LAS HERMANAS: $1k → 11%LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $5k → 11%mount helix foundation: $25k → 11%mount helix foundation: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST COUNTY: $25k → 11%mount helix foundation: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST COUNTY: $15k → 11%mount helix foundation: $5k → 11%mount helix foundation: $3k → 11%BOYS TO MEN MENTORING: $2k → 11%BOYS TO MEN MENTORING: $2k → 11%KPBS: $3k → 11%BOYS TO MEN MENTORING: $1k → 11%KPBS: $2k → 11%Walden Family Services: $35k → 11%Walden Family Services: $25k → 11%Walden Family Services: $5k → 11%Walden Family Services: $5k → 11%TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE FARM: $15k → 11%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$423k · 12 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$423k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-4%

Still filing today

42%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GH
    Grossmont Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +9%
  • PF
    PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $53k · revenue +27%
  • VH
    VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TT
    TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE FARM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • LP
    LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
4
Sharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center

To operate and maintain a general acute care hospital and related facilities for the acute care of persons suffering from illnesses or disabilities, and for the continuing care of persons needing rehabilitation and the custodial care of…

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5
Grossmont Hospital Corporation

Grossmont Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical services to the community.

Health
6
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
7
Sharp Memorial Hospital

Sharp Memorial Hospital provides comprehensive medical services to the San Diego Community.

Health
8
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
9
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
12
The Scripps Howard Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PROMISES2KIDS Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

mount helix foundation: $82,500 · Othermount helix foundationWalden Family Services: $70,000 · OtherWalden Family ServicesPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST COUNTY: $40,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST COUNTYRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $22,000 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALTWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE FARM INC: $15,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $11,000 · Other+5 more: $11,700 · OtherGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $97,500 · HealthGrossmont Hospital FoundationVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $30,500 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION+2 more: $1,100 · HealthLAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $4,900 · Youth DevelopmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 · AnimalsThe Cousteau Society Inc: $450 · Environment
Other$304,700Health$129,100Arts & Culture$5,000Youth Development$4,900Animals$3,000Environment$450

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 budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $97,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $4,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Las Hermanas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSprites of East County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds San Diego Las Hermanas ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sprites of East County Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Cousteau Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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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