Mary Bradley Corporation
Greenfield, WI · EIN 36-2181940. Reported 62 grants totalling $1,006,500 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mary Bradley Corporation, the IRS classifies it as a named trust (NTEE T900).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 7% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IHM Development Mission | Chicago, IL | $101,500 | 9 | 2 | 2022 |
| Embrace Services Inc | Ladysmith, WI | $62,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Support and Empowerment of Vulnerable Persons | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Phumulani Minnesota African Women Against Violence | Minneapolis, MN | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Urban Boatbuilders Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Lift Garage | Minneapolis, MN | $36,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Institute for Healing of Memories - North America Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends in Solidarity Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Church of Saint Peter Claver of Saint Paul Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ebe Progressive Association Inc | Mesquite, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healing of Memories North America | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Lady of Sorrows Church | Ladysmith, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stepping Stones Inc | Medford, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of the Divine Savior | Milwaukee, WI | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bravo Zulu House | Winnebago, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Build People Worldwide Inc | Brown Deer, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| IHM Healthcare Foundation Inc | Champlin, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laudate Jesu Children of Kenya | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lighthouse Org | Ladysmith, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Truth Walker | Burnsville, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adelante Mujer Inc | Fond Du Lac, WI | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Give US Wings | Saint Paul, MN | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Power House Youth Center | Ladysmith, WI | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Feather Development Group | Flagstaff, AZ | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roots for the Home Team | Minneapolis, MN | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Agate Housing and Services Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethany House of Hospitality | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cruzando Fronteras | Phoenix, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| H2O for Life | White Bear Lake, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kolbe Mission Inc | Scottsdale, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marys Pence | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Real Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Mary's Mission | Red Lake, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Avalon Charter School | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lifeway Network Inc | Tarrytown, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in AME | Saint Paul, MN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Bishop of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highland Friendship Club | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Rides | Mineral Wells, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc | Montevideo, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Louis Area Women Religious Collaborative Ministries | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Whole Health Outreach | Ellington, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Workforce Resource Inc | Menomonie, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| This Old Horse Inc | Afton, MN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
8 of 44 (18%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Embrace
SUPPORT A PORTION OF THE ESTIMATED LABOR AND SUPPLIES TO INSTALL AN ELEVATOR - St Peter Claver Catholic School
REPAIR THE BOYS' BATHROOM - Our Lady of Sorrows Church
PURCHASE HVAC SYSTEM FOR OUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC SCHOOL - Ebe Progressive Association
IMPROVE THE ROADWAY TO PROVIDE BETTER ACCESSIBILITY - Healing of Memories North America
HEALING OF MEMORIES WORKSHOPS FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS - Stepping Stones
PROVIDE UP TO 312 NIGHTS IN A MOTEL FOR VICTIMS IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $361,000 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $246,000 | $16,000 |
| 2023 | 6 | $96,500 | $17,500 |
| 2024 | 16 | $303,000 | $18,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
37% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mary Bradley Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 5376 Butterfield Way, Greenfield, WI, 53221.
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