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The Katharine Bradford Foundation at a glance

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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.

$395k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$789kPhilanthropy$180kHuman Services$119kHousing & Shelter$117kCommunity Improvement$81kFood & Nutrition$72kArts & Culture$71kHealth$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$75,000
TRUSTEES OF BRANTWOOD$75,000
MSPCA-ANGELL$50,000
BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE$35,000
Foundation for Norfolk Living$30,000
CORNUCOPIA PROJECT$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
OPEN TABLE$30,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$30,000
CHURCH OF CHRIST$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOYT FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $103k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%HOYT FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HOYT FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%WINDRUSH FARM: $10k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION IN: $1k → 10%CHRISTOPHER'S HAVEN: $2k → 16%CHRISTOPHER'S HAVEN: $1k → 16%WINDRUSH FARM: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
LA
FL
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.
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 5% of The Katharine Bradford Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Katharine Bradford Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

67%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +20%
  • MR
    MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +12%
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $103k · revenue +11%
  • M
    MAXCOURAGE
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • BH
    BEVERLY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
2
Quincy Animal Shelter Inc

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.

Animals
3
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

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…

Animals
4
Animal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast

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…

Animals
5
Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire

Helping pets and the people that care for them.

—
6
Forever Home Rescue New England Inc

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.

Animals
7
Worcester Animal Rescue League Inc

Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.

Animals
8
Boston Terrier Rescue of North Carolina

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…

Animals
9
Friends of Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter Inc

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.

—
10
Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue Inc

Care, shelter, and adoption for golden retriever canines.

Animals
11
Northeast Animal Shelter Inc

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.

—
12
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANINE COMPANIONS: $230,000 · OtherCANINE COMPANIONSIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAXCOURAGE: $75,000 · OtherMAXCOURAGETRUSTEES OF BRANTWOOD: $75,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BRANTWOOD+23 more: $191,100 · Other+23 moreMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $175,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVE…MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $105,400 · AnimalsMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIE…K9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $86,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $82,000 · AnimalsBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INCLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $60,500 · AnimalsLucky Orphans Horse Rescue IncAnimal Umbrella Inc: $19,000 · Animals+2 more: $16,000 · AnimalsPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $103,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $12,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FOUNDATION FOR NORFOLK LIVING INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterOPEN TABLE INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $35,000 · Public BenefitNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC: $22,000 · Environment
Other$826,100Animals$543,900Human Services$133,500Housing & Shelter$105,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Public Benefit$35,000Environment$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $105,400 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $103,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $86,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $82,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $60,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC: $22,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAnimal Umbrella Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $18,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Dog Rescue NE Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $6,250 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristopher's Haven Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOYT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% 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.

American Tower Corpor…Boston Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Eastern Bank Foundati…Institution for Savin…Salem Five Charitable…Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…
American Tower Corporation Foundation IncMA23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Katharine Bradford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Katharine Bradford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
4report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Katharine Bradford Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Katharine Bradford 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.

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 47 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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