· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON | $10,000 |
| NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $791k · revenue +70%- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +67%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation6× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SASCHOLAR ATHLETES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -91%
- JJESUITSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PDparkinson's disease foundationone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds PARK STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB FOR GROWTH ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds New Civil Liberties Alliance ↗
- Who funds Charity Bridge Fund ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RINGGOLD PARK INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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