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Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc

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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$220kAnimals$91kRecreation & Sports$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$35,000
KRAVIS CENTER$25,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH$10,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY$5,000
BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $10k → 17%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $2k → 14%KRAVIS CENTER: $25k → 11%PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT: $5k → 7%NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY: $5k → 4%HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $33k → 7%CHRIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 9%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $20k → 11%HEARST FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HILLWOOD ESTATE: $3k → 14%KRAVIS CENTER: $25k → 11%NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY: $5k → 4%GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $20k → 7%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $20k → 11%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 11%BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $10k → 7%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $20k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $36k → 11%BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $35k → 11%BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $11k → 11%BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%PALM BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5k → 7%BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%BARNS OF ROSE HILL: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 8 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$363k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-12%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    3× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +381%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +460%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +113%
  • HC
    HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • TP
    THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc

Winterthur builds upon the vision of Henry Francis du Pont to inspire and educate through its collections, estate, and academic programs by engaging diverse audiences in the study, preservation, and interpretation of American material…

Arts & Culture
3
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art

The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…

Arts & Culture
4
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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5
Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment
6
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
7
Norman Rockwell Museum At Stockbridge Inc

The norman rockwell museum illuminates the power of american illustration art to reflect and shape society, and advances the enduring values of kindness, respect, and social equity portrayed by norman rockwell.

Arts & Culture
8
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
The New Museum At the Bradford Brinton Ranch

The brinton museum connects people to the past, present and future of the american west through its historic quarter circle ranch, fine art, and american indian art collections.

Arts & Culture
11
The Parrish Art Museum Inc

The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…

Arts & Culture
12
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County; the most unlike its peers is The Hearst Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $82,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncNational Gallery of Art: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC+3 more: $10,100 · Arts & CultureBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $62,550 · PhilanthropyBLUE RIDGE WILDL…BOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 · OtherBOYCE VOLUNTEER…HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherHOPE FOR DEPRES…HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,800 · OtherHEARST CASTLE P…The Hearst Foundation: $5,000 · OtherThe Hearst Foun…CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CREA…CHRIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS: $2,000 · OtherGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,000 · OtherUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPERVILLE CO…MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $28,000 · AnimalsThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$202,100Philanthropy$62,550Other$56,800Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$28,000Crime & Legal$10,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $82,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $62,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hearst Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Luminescence Foun…Wise FoundationThe Van Metre Family …Dun FoundationThe American Donkey T…The Hall Family Found…The Manuel & Mary Joh…Monomoy Fund IncAwa Family FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
The Luminescence Foundation IncVA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · The American Donkey Trust · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · The Manuel & Mary Johnson Foundation · Monomoy Fund Inc · Awa Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ronald M Bradley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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