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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP | $75,250 |
| SHAWNIGAN USA FUND | $70,242 |
| COST GUARD FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $31,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF INTERDEPENDENT SCHOOLS | $29,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $28,000 |
| FARESTART | $26,000 |
| ISLANDWOOD | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $20,000 |
| HOPELINK | $20,000 |
| LAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| SAIL SAND POINT | $16,000 |
| ISLAND HAVEN ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 5% of The Bradley Family Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- SUSHAWNIGAN USA FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $689k · revenue +1%
- STSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +95%
ISLANDWOOD8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NCNORTHWEST CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
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.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
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…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islandwood and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 SHAWNIGAN USA FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boyer Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kirkland Arts Center ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds LAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sail Sand Point ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND BETTER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HAVEN ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE MUSICIANS ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTUALISM ↗
- Who funds WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE ↗
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: 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
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 Bradley 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.
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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