· Private foundation
The Katharine Bradford 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF BRANTWOOD | $75,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $75,000 |
| MSPCA-ANGELL | $50,000 |
| BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE | $35,000 |
| OPEN TABLE | $30,000 |
| CORNUCOPIA PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Foundation for Norfolk Living | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
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, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 Katharine Bradford 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +20%- MRMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +12%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC5× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCone grant, 2024 · $103k · revenue +11%
- MMAXCOURAGEone grant, 2024 · $75k
- BHBEVERLY HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Quincy animal shelter is dedicated to finding and placing every animal in a safe, loving home with a caring family. the shelter is committed to the humane adn ethical treatement of all animals in its care.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
Helping pets and the people that care for them.
Forever home rescue new england, inc is an all-volunteer, shelterless rescue group whose mission is to find loving forever homes for the dogs they rescue.
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
The organization rescues and cares for boston terrier dogs until appropriate homes can be found, and provides transportation to the new home. the organization serves north carolina, and assists in south carolina, georgia, virginia, and…
Provides a safe haven for stray and homeless dogs and cats for the surrounding towns of pittsfield in berkshire county, ma until they are reclaimed by owners or until caring, responsible homes are found.
Care, shelter, and adoption for golden retriever canines.
To provide, promote, and advance humane protection, care and treatment of animals thru education of the public and the operation of an animal shelter which cares for, spays and neuters, and places homeless pets in permanent homes.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR NORFOLK LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Umbrella Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Great Dog Rescue NE Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Christopher's Haven Inc ↗
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: American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Katharine Bradford 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Norfolk Land Trust Inc — 49% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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