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The Bradburd Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$447kArts & Culture$356kReligion$341kEducation$332kHealth$261kHousing & Shelter$150kRecreation & Sports$122kPublic Benefit$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $875k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $710k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE$150,000
MEADVILLE LOMBARD THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL$120,000
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$70,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC OF LAS CRUCES NEW MEXICO$60,000
ARTIST TRUST$60,000
SEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD$50,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION$50,000
COMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING FOUNDATION$50,000
FACING HOMELESSNESS$50,000
SEATTLE DERBY BRATS$50,000
GENDER JUSTICE LEAGUE$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA & KY INC$40,000
PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%CRUCES CREATIVE: $20k → 23%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY DAY CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $8k → 7%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $3k → 7%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $3k → 7%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $1k → 7%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $1k → 7%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $50k → 9%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $500 → 7%YOUTH CARE: $10k → 9%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $500 → 7%UNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND: $10k → 9%FOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+11%

Still filing today

43%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • UU
    Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +27%
  • AH
    ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +150%
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SF
    SACRED FIRE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • UC
    UU CHURCH OF ANNAPOLIS-AWAKE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • UM
    UU MINISTERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
3
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
4
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
5
City Club of Portland

To inform its members and the community in public matters and to arouse in them the realization of the obligations of citizenship.

Community Improvement
6
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
7
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.

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9
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
10
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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12
Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Environmental Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsNative Hawaiian Community D…Homeless Services & ShelterChild and Family ServicesLgbtq+ Community CentersPregnancy Support ServicesProfessional Ballet Compani…Animal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Development CentersSubstance Abuse TreatmentLand Conservation Organizat…Asian American Advocacy & H…Early Childhood Education C…Classical Music EnsemblesWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…United Way FederationsCancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Faith-Based Senior LivingFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%51%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,495

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION — $250,515 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONMEADVILLE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF LOMBARD COLLEGE — $228,000 · OtherMEADVILLE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF LOMBARD COLLEGENORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $70,000 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECTPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC OF LAS CRUCES NEW MEXICO — $60,000 · OtherCommunity Roots Housing Foundation — $50,000 · OtherSeattle Derby Brats — $50,000 · Other+52 more — $582,650 · Other+52 moreArtist Trust — $60,000 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA …Spectrum Dance Theater — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSpectrum Danc…SEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE JAZZ …SHARING NOTES — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSHARING NOTESDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW…Seattle JazzED — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureIrish Music School of Chicago — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCentral District Forum for Arts & Ideas — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePRATT FINE ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMESILLA VALLEY FILM SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEWSROOM — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $11,000 · Arts & CultureUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc — $287,000 · InternationalUnitarian Uni…ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $151,000 · HealthABINGTON HEA…SEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD — $50,000 · HealthSEATTLE INDI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…Therapeutic Health Services — $20,000 · HealthTherapeutic …+1 more — $250 · HealthFACING HOMELESSNESS — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD — $26,650 · Human ServicesCRUCES CREATIVES — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DAY CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $75,100 · EducationDR KAREN M TRUJILLO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL — $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $3,550 · EducationGender Justice League — $40,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,291,165Arts & Culture$296,000International$287,000Health$261,250Human Services$126,900Education$118,650Civil Rights$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc — $287,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $151,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $75,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC OF LAS CRUCES NEW MEXICO — $60,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater — $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOULKEWAYS AT GWYNEDD — $26,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING NOTES — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS CRUCES — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMURRAY GROVE ASSOCIATION — $18,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSeattle JazzED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAS CRUCES COMMUNITY THEATER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetIrish Music School of Chicago — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCentral District Forum for Arts & Ideas — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN ARTWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaris Place — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $2,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc — $2,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetART GOES TO SCHOOL OF DELAWARE VALLEY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA — $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Unitarian Church Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationArtsfundThe Norcliffe Foundat…Raynier Institute & F…Lucky Seven FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Glassybaby White Ligh…Gates FoundationLorna Jordan Charitab…Raikes FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…United Way of King Co…
Seattle FoundationWA31.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Gates Foundation · Lorna Jordan Charitable Organization AKA Lorna Jordan Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County

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 The Bradburd Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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