· Private foundation
W Waldo and Jenny Lynn M Bradley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Wells Fargo Corp Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE BASCOM CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% of your 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.
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 Highlands Historical Society formed to preserve, restore and interpret the historic mansion and grounds from 1794 to the present.
Construction and maintenance of hiking trails in Highlands, North Carolina for public use
Dedicated to protecting and preserving the rich history of Valdosta and Lowndes county by maintaining a museum for education and research purposes.
The mission of the Oconee River Land Trust is to conserve natural lands to protect the quality, preserve wildlife habitat, and enhance the quality of our lives and those of future generations
To promote permanent conservation of the natural resources and scenic beauty of the mountains and foothills of north georgia through land protection, collaborative partnerships and education.
To preserve and restore the biodiversity of southeastern coastal ecosystems through conservation and educational efforts.
The GATC maintains the Appalachian Trail
To acquire, transfer and manage land in a manner designed to promote the preservation of environmentally valuable or sensitive resources, recreational resources, agricultural resources, resources of historic or cultural importance and open…
To conserve the unique plant and animal habitat, clean water, farmland, scenic beauty, and places for all people to enjoy outdoor recreation in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, enduring for future generations. Continued-see…
GNPS is dedicated to championing the stewardship and conservation of Georgia's native plants and their habitats.
To protect, preserve and restore the habital water quality of the Chattahoochee Watershed from West Point Lake to the Florida border.
Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Council of Highlands Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brentwood School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Altamaha Riverkeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BOARD OF BETHESDA 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: The Woodcrest Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 W Waldo and Jenny Lynn M Bradley 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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