Illinois · Nonprofit
MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION
MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,561 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Marcus J Bradshaw Foundation does
Mission
To assist underserved chicagoland students with demonstrated academic promise, who are in need of financial assistance to attend college
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Awarded scholarships to underserved students withdemonstrated academic promise, who were in need offinancial assistance to attend college
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $23k (+48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Crystal Phillips-Pierce
Exec director
Board chair
Sheri Bradshaw
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $46 → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
67% of MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION?
- MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,561 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,561 in grants to MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCUS J BRADSHAW FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing