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The Bradley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$478k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$26,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,250
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$9.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Bradley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsEducationEmploymentPublic BenefitArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$478k25%
FY202319$339k26%
FY202220$540k5%
FY202123$338k13%
FY202022$236k14%
FY201920$500k10%
FY201819$422k42%
FY201715$399kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$593kHealth$392kAnimals$242kHuman Services$174kEmployment$159kPublic Safety & Disaster$111kEnvironment$107kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shawnigan USA Fund$689,025818%
Seattle Theatre Group$350,25080%
Farestart$159,00080%
Islandwood$150,00080%
Northwest Center$118,00060%
Boyer Children's Clinic$115,00081%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$111,48050%
Kirkland Arts Center$110,00055%
Sound Generations$104,33580%
Lake Washington College Foundation$102,00072%
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All grantees of The Bradley Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shawnigan USA Fund$689,025818%
Seattle Theatre Group$350,25080%
Farestart$159,00080%
Islandwood$150,00080%
Northwest Center$118,00060%
Boyer Children's Clinic$115,00081%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$111,48050%
Kirkland Arts Center$110,00055%
Sound Generations$104,33580%
Lake Washington College Foundation$102,00072%
Sail Sand Point$99,80083%
Academy for Precision Learning$84,50051%
Animal Protection Society of Friday Harbor$83,00063%
Friends of Independent Schools and Better Education$82,85332%
Social Venture Partners$74,00051%
Island Haven Animal Sanctuary$70,500712%
Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare$70,00045%
Hopelink$70,00040%
The Mountaineers$62,00050%
Rainier Scholars$61,00020%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$55,00040%
Friends of the San Juans$45,00022%
Speak Feed Lead Project$35,0002n/a
University of Washington Foundation$28,00030%
Northwest Center Foundation$26,0001n/a
Actualism$6,00016%
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre$5,00011%
Vocal Productions NYC Corp$4,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bradley Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShawnigan USA Fund: $689,025 over 8y, 18% of budgetSeattle Theatre Group: $350,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFarestart: $159,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIslandwood: $150,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwest Center: $118,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic: $115,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $111,480 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKirkland Arts Center: $110,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSound Generations: $104,335 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLake Washington College Foundation: $102,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSail Sand Point: $99,800 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetAcademy for Precision Learning: $84,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Protection Society of Friday Harbor: $83,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFriends of Independent Schools and Better Education: $82,853 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSocial Venture Partners: $74,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetIsland Haven Animal Sanctuary: $70,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetSeattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare: $70,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHopelink: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mountaineers: $62,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRainier Scholars: $61,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the San Juans: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetActualism: $6,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · San Juan Island Community Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Artsfund

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.

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How do I get to The Bradley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bradley Family Foundation 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.

About The Bradley Family Foundation

How much does The Bradley Family Foundation give?
The Bradley Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $478,492 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Bradley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (12%).
Who are The Bradley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shawnigan USA Fund ($689k), Seattle Theatre Group ($350k), Farestart ($159k).
Does The Bradley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bradley Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bradley Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Lucky Seven Foundation.
Where is The Bradley Family Foundation based?
The Bradley Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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