How much does Mary Bradley Corporation give?

Mary Bradley Corporation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $303,000, out of $585,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Mary Bradley Corporation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (18%), Human Services (18%), Education (12%).

Who are Mary Bradley Corporation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ihm Development Mission ($102k), Embrace Services Inc ($97k), Support and Empowerment of Vulnerable Persons ($75k).

Does Mary Bradley Corporation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Bradley Corporation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Mary Bradley Corporation based?

Mary Bradley Corporation is based in WI.

Mary Bradley Corporation

Mary Bradley Corporation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Mary Bradley Corporation

To provide grants to charitable organizations, especially those serving women and children.

$585k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$355kHuman Services$348kEducation$230kHealth$228kFood & Nutrition$152kReligion$149kHousing & Shelter$134kPhilanthropy$78kOther$0

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $303,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $585,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $282,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EMBRACE	$30,000
ST PETER CLAVER CATHOLIC SCHOOL	$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
KOLBE MISSION	$15,000
CRUZANDO FRONTERAS	$15,000
MARY'S PENCE	$15,000
HEALING OF MEMORIES NEW YORK	$15,000
H2O FOR LIFE	$15,000
FRIENDS IN SOLIDARITY	$15,000

02The need

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its 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.

South Asia$176k · 64% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: PURCHASE A SCHOOL BUS · PROVIDE CARE FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN AND PROVIDE EQUIPMENT · PURCHASE MATERIALS TO CONSTRUCT SISTER'S CONVENT

Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, And Zimbabwe$81k · 29% · 4 grants

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

Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe,$20k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAIN 100 VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS

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. 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 sends the money.

About 12% of Mary Bradley Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 26%.

Mary Bradley Corporationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$896k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$764k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+5%

Still filing today

65%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

ES
EMBRACE SERVICES INC
5× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +88%
UB
URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC
3× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +21%
FI
Friends in Solidarity Inc
3× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +52%

Funded once

UG
UNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +195%
CD
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKFORD
one grant, 2017 · $33k
TR
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX
one grant, 2017 · $30k

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.

Mercy House Minneapolis

Human Services

Home for Homeless Women

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House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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East African Healing Services

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House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services

Islands of Hope Dream Center

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,…

Public Benefit

The Dwelling Place

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.

Human Services

Lifehouse Ministries Inc

Housing & Shelter

His Helping Hands Ministries

Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.

Religion

Daughters of Hope Refuge Inc

Providing transitional housing and quality restorative services that move women and their children to lives of stability independence and new life.

Human Services

Mercy House Initiative

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.

Religion

Hands of Hope African Outreach

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…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whole Health Outreach; 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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/49

Grantees still filing

30/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,158,000Human Services$301,000International$149,000Philanthropy$101,500Health$100,900Youth Development$71,000Religion$65,000

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN25.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Bradley Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Bradley Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The regranting layer

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By state

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