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The B&D Brady Foundation at a glance

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The B&D Brady Foundation

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.

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$425kInternational$400kHuman Services$275kHealth$200kEnvironment$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kArts & Culture$65kPublic Benefit$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
Zyjmy Zdrowo Foundation$100,000
SISTER JOSE WOMEN'S CENTER$100,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$80,000
TANQUE VERDE VALLEY ASSOCIATION$50,000
Saint Elizabeth Shelter C$25,000
FRIENDS OF SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK$20,000
LEGION OF CHRIST COLLEGE$20,000
EASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM$15,000
FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION$5,000
Lensic Performing Arts Ce$5,000
Santa Fe Opera$5,000
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.

US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($1.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($200k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $15k → 15%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $10k → 15%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $10k → 15%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.

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($200k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Poland$200k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The B&D Brady Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The B&D Brady Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+23%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SJ
    Sister Jose Women's Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +81%
  • FO
    Friends of Saguaro National Park
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +35%
  • TS
    THE SANTA FE OPERA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IM
    INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • AY
    AMISTAD Y SALUD
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +23% · 34% of their budget
  • BG
    BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -60%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Society of St Vincent de Paul Tucson

The mission of SSVDP is to promote the spiritual growth of its members through prayer, friendship, and service to others.

Religion
3
The Dons of Arizona
Education
4
El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Improving the health of our community through comprehensive, accessible, affordable, quality, and compassionate care.

Health
5
Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights
6
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc

The Tucson Investigative Reporting Center educates and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges & unique culture of our borderlands through independent local journalism.

Animals
7
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
8
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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9
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
10
Tucson Presidio Trust for Historic Preservation

The mission of the presidio san agustin del tucson trust is to promote, preserve and interpret the origins and history of tucson

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11
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
12
Tucson Interfaith Hivaids Network

Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network offers a compassionate interfaith response to HIV/AIDS, helping people with HIV to live well.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amistad Y Salud; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

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 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Interfaith Community Services: $240,000 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesZyjmy Zdrowo Foundation: $200,000 · OtherZyjmy Zdrowo FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTERS: $25,000 · OtherPATRONATO SAN XAVIER: $20,000 · OtherLEGION OF CHRIST COLLEGE INC: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $45,000 · Other+3 moreSister Jose Women's Center: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Women's CenterTANQUE VERDE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTANQUE VERDE VALLEY ASSOCIATION…SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterSAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORA…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $100,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT M…AMISTAD Y SALUD: $100,000 · HealthAMISTAD Y SAL…BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 · Public BenefitFriends of Saguaro National Park: $50,000 · EnvironmentEASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $35,000 · Human Services
Other$575,000Housing & Shelter$475,000Religion$300,000Health$200,000Public Benefit$50,000Environment$50,000Human Services$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $300,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $240,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTANQUE VERDE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMISTAD Y SALUD: $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Saguaro National Park: $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEASTSIDE NEIGHBORS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: $35,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetPATRONATO SAN XAVIER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Texas Instruments Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The B&D Brady Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The B&D Brady Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 18 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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