· Public charity
Mary Bradley Corporation
To provide grants to charitable organizations, especially those serving women and children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $303,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $585,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EMBRACE | $30,000 |
| EBE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| RUSK COUNTY LIGHTHOUSE | $20,000 |
| SUPPORT AND EMPOWERMENT OF VULNERABLE PERSONS | $20,000 |
| BRAVO ZULU HOUSE | $20,000 |
| IHM HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| URBAN BOATBUILDERS | $18,000 |
| ADELANTE MUJER | $18,000 |
| CRUZANDO FRONTERAS | $15,000 |
| MARY'S PENCE | $15,000 |
| H2O FOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS IN SOLIDARITY | $15,000 |
| KOLBE MISSION | $15,000 |
| HEALING OF MEMORIES NEW YORK | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $277k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PURCHASE A SCHOOL BUS · PROVIDE CARE FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN AND PROVIDE EQUIPMENT · PURCHASE MATERIALS TO CONSTRUCT SISTER'S CONVENT
Stated purpose: CONSTRUCT ONE CLASSROOM FOR CHILDREN, A KITCHEN, AND A TOILET DOYA · CONSTRUCT A WATER TANK AND WATER WELL · REFURBISH THE HEALTH CENTRE, UPGRADE THE PHARMACY, LAB, CONFERENCE ROOM, ETC
Stated purpose: TRAIN 100 VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Mary Bradley Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- ESEMBRACE SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +88%
- UBURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC3× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +21%
- FIFriends in Solidarity Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +195%
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKFORDone grant, 2017 · $33k
- TRTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUXone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
Islands of Hope Dream Center exists to restore hope and dignity to women who have survived human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Our mission is to provide a safe, Christ-centered home where each woman is welcomed into a community,…
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
Providing transitional housing and quality restorative services that move women and their children to lives of stability independence and new life.
Mercy House Initiative exists to raise financial support for the operations of Mercy House in Zambia, a Christ-focused organization addressing the needs of women in the Ndola community and throughout the Copperbelt region.
Hands of Hope African Outreach empowers vulnerable women and children in East Africa by partnering with small community-based organizations We support locally led initiatives that provide vocational training access to education healthcare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whole Health Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Hope Rides. 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 17 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 74 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
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 IHM DEVELOPMENT MISSION ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends in Solidarity Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds RICE LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PHUMULANI ↗
- Who funds RED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Hospitality ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALING OF MEMORIES - NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds African Soul American Heart ↗
- Who funds Avalon Charter School ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RIDES ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL AID TO NORTHERN UGANDA ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
- Who funds INDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH WALKER ↗
- Who funds BRAVO ZULU HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Haitian Relief Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LighthouseOrg Inc ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Edina Realty Foundation · Youthprise
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 Mary Bradley Corporation 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.
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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