· Private foundation
Mary Bradof Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Mary Bradof Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Idaho Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Mary Bradof Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $175k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMALS IN DISTRESS ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WYAKIN WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INTERPARISH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| MCPAWS | $10,000 |
| CLERMONT SENIOR SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| TETON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOMEN AWARE INC | $5,000 |
| GOODING PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF BOISE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES PROGRAM INC | $3,000 |
| WYLER BOY'S AND GIRL'S CLUB OF CINCINNATI | $3,000 |
| ADOPT-A-BOOK | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Mary Bradof Foundation Inc’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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down. 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE6× · 2017–2022 · $138k · revenue +48%
- AIANIMALS IN DISTRESS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +62%
- WWWYAKIN WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MEMACKAY ELEMENTRY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $8k
- MSMERIDIAN SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2020 · $6k
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +239%
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Advocates 4 Animals A4A Pet Pantry is a 100% volunteer 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to keeping animals with their families during financial hardship by providing pet food and spay-neuter assistance. We also operate an adoption program caring…
The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of our Hunterdon County community. We offer choices of nutritious foods and essentials, foster resource connections, provide tailored programming, and respect the dignity of our neighbors…
Grateful Paws NJ is a non-profit organization devoted to rescuing stray and abandoned animals throughout New Jersey, providing medical care and helping them to find new homes.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…
Provides shelter, food, veterinary services and medicine for abandoned and stray cats. No cats are euthanized. All are placed in homes, foster homes or remain at the shelter.
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Prevention of cruelty to animals through advocacy and community in need. reduction and eventual elimination of the killing of cats and dogs by actively promoting.
Purrs and Whiskers primary function is to find forever homes for cats and kittens that are abandoned, stray, owner turn in, injured/sick, and/or born in feral colonies after we have fully vetted them by spaying/neutering, vaccinating,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Advocate Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Capic-Cat Adoption and Pet Information Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS IN DISTRESS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYAKIN WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds MCPAWS INC ↗
- Who funds Clermont Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LILLIAN VALLELY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GOODING RESTORATION FOR ENTERTAIN- MENT ARTS & THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPIC-CAT ADOPTION AND PET INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEISER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bradof Foundation Inc 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.
- Women Aware Inc — 43% 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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