North Carolina · Private foundation
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.
- $308k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2025
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Brady Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 117 | $306k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 117 | $198k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 104 | $293k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 103 | $193k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $183k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 107 | $188k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $163k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $164k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Historic Camden Foundation | $197,550 | 5 | 15% |
| Open Medicine Foundation | $123,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The 2Forks Club | $69,600 | 6 | 12% |
| Catawba College | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Mount Sopris Historical Society | $50,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Hollins University Corporation | $46,970 | 9 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $44,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The I Am Foundation | $37,909 | 3 | 100% |
| Second Chance Inc | $32,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 194 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 166 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brady Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 164 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Brady Foundation
- How much does Brady Foundation give?
- Brady Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $307,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brady Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are Brady Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Historic Camden Foundation ($198k), Open Medicine Foundation ($123k), The 2Forks Club ($70k).
- Does Brady Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brady Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brady Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Aspen Business Center Foundation, Alpenglow Foundation.
- Where is Brady Foundation based?
- Brady Foundation is based in NC.
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