· Public charity
Marjorie M and Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund of Polk County Nc
To give grants in polk county, nc for charitable, educational, medical and community benefit purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) and 170(c)(2) of the internal revenue code of 1986 and to support the polk county community foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Marjorie M and Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund of Polk County Nc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Polk County Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Marjorie M and Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund of Polk County Nc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $345k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k6 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FENCE | $135,000 |
| TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS INC | $35,000 |
| UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE | $35,000 |
| TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| TRYON PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS | $35,000 |
| LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| TRYON LITTLE THEATER INC | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FEFoothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $185k · revenue +68%
- TLTRYON LITTLE THEATER INC3× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +177% · 40% of their budget
- TFTRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $46k · revenue -27%
Funded once
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +44%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2019 · $28k
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.
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.
To promote, teach, and nourish the creation and appreciation of the visual arts.
To provide quality visual art exhibits and educational experiences for the enrichment of the entire community.
Cultivation and celebration of the arts.
To foster an awareness and appreciation of the natural world and to conserve, protect and maintain the area surrounding pearson's falls on colt creek in polk & henderson counties, north carolina
To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
To provide high quality venues and performing arts for the Highlands - Cashiers community.
To provide opportunities for growth and appreciation of the visual fine arts through exhibitions and programs in our community.
To provide diverse opportunities in the arts for all people through exhibitions, education and outreach programs.
To explore and educate the public about traditional culture and folklife in northern new york.
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Polk County Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TRYON LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LANIER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON PAINTERS & SCULPTORS INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS 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.
Open a dossier: Polk County Community Foundation Inc · The Dobbs Family Charitable Foundation Trust Agreement · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marjorie M and Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund of Polk County Nc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie M and Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund of Polk County Nc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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