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Brady 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k114 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC CAMDEN FOUNDATION | $61,300 |
| MOUNT SOPRIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| REGROUP WNC FUND | $28,500 |
| GULF COAST PRIMATE SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| PBS | $7,500 |
| WETA | $7,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
160 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- HCHISTORIC CAMDEN FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $198k · revenue +186%
- OMOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $123k · revenue +35%
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE6× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +383%
Funded once
- SCSECOND CHANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +221%
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
- TBTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OFone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tetrick Family Foundation. 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 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
181 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. 181 of the 365 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 HISTORIC CAMDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The 2Forks Club ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SOPRIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE I AM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY DOGS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Kershaw County ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARBONDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Farm Collaborative ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE SETTINGS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Arches Foundation · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Colorado Gives Foundation · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Nm Morris Family Foundation · The Flunison Fund
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 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
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