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The Mark S Bradley Charitable 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.

$255k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 29
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$7.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving29$255k14%
FY202422$327k14%
FY202324$239k13%
FY202228$207k25%
FY202125$174k24%
FY202029$163k34%
FY201925$150k16%
FY201821$124k33%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MHealth$303kCivil Rights$62kPublic Benefit$36kYouth Development$26kCrime & Legal$24kPhilanthropy$21kReligion$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston College$791,00090%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$282,06090%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$125,0009n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$82,50060%
Park Street School Inc$70,0003n/a
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies$50,62580%
Fund for Catholic Schools Inc$34,5009n/a
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$25,50070%
Pacific Legal Foundation$21,50050%
Judicial Watch Inc$15,75090%
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All grantees of The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston College$791,00090%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$282,06090%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$125,0009n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$82,50060%
Park Street School Inc$70,0003n/a
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies$50,62580%
Fund for Catholic Schools Inc$34,5009n/a
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$25,50070%
Pacific Legal Foundation$21,50050%
Judicial Watch Inc$15,75090%
Cato Institute$10,08290%
Scholar Athletes Inc$10,00010%
Florida Philanthropic Network Inc$8,00080%
Belmont Hill School Inc$8,00030%
Club for Growth$7,00020%
Competitive Enterprise Institute$7,00060%
The Philanthropy Roundtable$6,50070%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,50060%
American Federation for Children Inc$6,00060%
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc$6,00020%
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc$6,00030%
New Civil Liberties Alliance$5,0001n/a
Pioneer Institute Inc$4,50050%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$2,50040%
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty$2,00020%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$2,00020%
National Alopecia Areata Foundation$2,00020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,00020%
Animal Rescue League of Boston$1,50030%
Friends of Ringgold Park Inc$1,5003n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,45040%
Golf Fights Cancer Inc$1,30010%
Parents Unite Inc$1,00022%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,00010%
Food Allergy Research & Education Inc$1,00010%
Vanderbilt University$1,00010%
Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc$1,0001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Alliance Defending Freedom$1,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,00010%
Boston Public Library Fund Inc$62020%
Friends of the Boston Park Rangers Mounted Unit Inc$5001n/a
Article III Inc$5001n/a
Thomas More Society$50010%
Tax Foundation$50010%
Autism Speaks Inc$40010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$30030%
Friends of Peters Park Inc$20011%
New Tolerance Campaign$1001n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$10010%
Play Ball Foundation Inc$10010%
Hope For The Warriors$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Boston College: $791,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Schools Foundation Inc: $282,060 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $82,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $50,625 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Harbor View Foundation Inc: $25,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $15,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $10,082 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetScholar Athletes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Philanthropic Network Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont Hill School Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClub for Growth: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompetitive Enterprise Institute: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Federation for Children Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJoslin Diabetes Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPioneer Institute Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Boston: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGolf Fights Cancer Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParents Unite Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Allergy Research & Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Public Library Fund Inc: $620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas More Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTax Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Peters Park Inc: $200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlay Ball Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $100 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 42.

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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.

James M Stoneman Charitable FundMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James M Stoneman Charitable Fund · The Lynch Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Donors Trust Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation

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 Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation?

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About The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation

How much does The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation give?
The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $255,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Health (17%), Civil Rights (4%).
Who are The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston College ($791k), Catholic Schools Foundation Inc ($282k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($125k).
Does The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mark S Bradley Charitable 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 Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James M Stoneman Charitable Fund, The Lynch Foundation, Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation based?
The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

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 68 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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