Bradley Impact Fund

The Bradley Impact Fund is a donor-advised fund "aligned with" the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation that gives grants to right-wing and conservative organizations identified by the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation is "a cornerstone for the conservative movement in Wisconsin and across America," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The Bradley Impact Fund is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and describes its mission as "To provide funding to organizations that research public policy and educate the public on policy issues." Gabe Conger, a Heritage Foundation alumni, was announced as the incoming President of the Bradley Impact Fund. Conger succeeded Jessica Dean, who is now the senior vice president for development.

Like DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund (DT and DCF), the Bradley Impact Fund is a "donor-advised fund," which means that the fund creates separate accounts for individual donors, and the donors then recommend disbursements from the accounts to different non-profits. They cloak the identity of the original mystery donors because the funds are then distributed in the name of the fund, contributing another step to what in the case of DT and DCF has been called a "murky money maze."

Funding

2019 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2019:

• Abigail Adams Institute: $25,000
• Acton Institute: $127,500
• Acts Community Development Corporation: $112,750
• African Enterprise U.S.A.: $35,000
• Aid to the Church in Need: $120,000
• Aldo Leopold Foundation: $25,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $6,000
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $219,826
• American Foreign Policy Council: $10,000
• American Ideas Institute: $10,000
• American Legislative Exchange Council: $10,500
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $25,000
• AmeriCares: $50,000
• Andean Health and Development: $25,000
• Archdiocese of Milwaukee: $13,500
• Badger Institute: $86,098
• Becket Fund: $6,000
• Benjamin Rush Institute: $10,000
• Big Shoulders Fund: $200,000
• Bottom Line: $25,000
• Capital Research Center: $40,750
• Catholic Near East Welfare: $240,000
• Cato Institute: $200,500
• Chicago Hope Academy: $100,000
• Chicago Jesuit Academy: $100,000
• Chicago Scholars Foundation: $250,000
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater: $100,000
• Civitas Institute: $10,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women: $150,000
• Claremont Institute: $26,000
• Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives: $25,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $65,000
• Concordia University: $15,000
• Constituting America: $10,000
• Cross Catholic Outreach: $60,000
• CRU: $14,800
• Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $150,000
• Dannie and JoeAnn Evans Ministries: $19,899
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $10,000
• Divine Savior Parish: $10,200
• Doctors Without Borders USA: $50,000
• DZI Foundation: $10,000
• Education Nurture Tomorrows Talent: $10,000
• Encounter for Culture and Education: $10,050
• Evans Scholars Foundation: $350,000
• Evergreen Freedom Foundation: $199,500
• Fair Lines America Foundation: $10,000
• Federalist Society: $511,000
• Feeding America: $10,000
• Fellowship of Catholic University: $6,400
• Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $25,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $50,000
• Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge: $15,000
• FreedomWorks Foundation: $12,500
• Fund for American Studies: $41,500
• Georgetown University: $15,000
• Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $10,000
• Growing Hope Globally: $20,000
• Heartland Institute: $50,000
• Heritage Foundation: $52,500
• Hillsdale College: $14,000
• Hudson Institute: $14,000
• Human Rights Foundation: $10,000
• Illinois Policy Institute: $115,000
• Immanuel Presbyrterian Church: $31,000
• Independent Women’s Forum: $30,000
• Institute for Free Speech: $20,000
• Institute for Justice: $11,000
• Institute for Reforming Government: $12,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $36,000
• International Christian Concern: $24,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History: $115,000
• Joseph Project: $15,000
• Judicial Watch: $8,750
• Knights of Columbus Charities: $18,000
• Ladies of Virtue NFP: $15,000
• Lakeland University: $110,000
• Leadership Institute: $25,500
• Lyric Opera of Chicago: $65,000
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy: $25,000
• MacIver Institute: $62,750
• Madison Symphony: $6,000
• Manhattan Institute: $25,000
• Media Research Center: $100,000
• Milwaukee College Prep: $125,000
• Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity: $6,600
• Milwaukee Repertory Theater: $23,100
• Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $137,500
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: $50,000
• Moving Picture Institute: $15,250
• National Association of Scholars: $12,000
• National Review Institute: $11,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $25,000
• National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $6,250
• Navy Seal Foundation: $10,000
• Network of Enlightened Women: $59,500
• New Beginnings are Possible: $10,000
• Open Doors with Brother Andrew: $60,000
• Operation Dream: $10,000
• Opportunity International: $24,000
• Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $15,500
• Parents Television Council: $10,000
• Pax Americana Institute: $15,000
• Prager University: $36,300
• President and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000
• Priests for Life: $36,000
• Princeton University: $25,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $34,000
• Project Veritas: $23,818
• Pro-Life Across America: $6,000
• Pro-Life Wisconsin Education Task Force: $6,000
• Property and Environment Research Center: $10,000
• Public Interest Legal Foundation: $285,000
• Real Clear Foundation: $10,000
• Running Rebels Community: $230,000
• Sand County Foundation: $70,000
• Scottsdale Bible Church: $6,400
• SMS Research Foundation: $10,000
• Society for the Propagation of the Faith: $24,000
• South and Southeast Asia Action Team with the Religious Freedom Institute: $25,000
• St. Bernard Parish: $55,000
• St. Francis Parish Province of St. Joseph Capuchin Order: $15,000
• St James Academy Bangalore: $131,000
• St. Marcus Lutheran Church: $22,000
• St. Paul University: $10,000
• St. Augustine Preparatory Academy: $56,000
• St. Mary’s Visitation Catholic Parish: $8,000
• Stanford University: $10,000
• Starboard Media Foundation: $12,000
• Step Up for Students: $250,000
• Success Academy Charter Schools: $25,000
• Thomas More Law Center: $6,000
• Trustees of Boston University: $24,000
• Turning Point USA: $251,250
• United Way of Dane County: $10,000
• United Way of Grater Milwaukee and Waukesha County: $110,000
• University of Wisconsin Foundation: $6,000
• Urbi Et Orbi Communications: $12,000
• VisionSynergy: $33,000
• William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale: $10,000
• Wisconsin Council on Economic Education: $9,798
• Wisconsin Historical Foundation: $15,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: $155,998
• Wisconsin Knights of Columbus Charities: $6,000
• Witherspoon Institute: $15,000
• Woodlands Academy: $30,000
• Young America’s Foundation: $80,500
• Youth for Christ International Ministries: $25,000
• Zimzam Global: $10,000

2018 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2018:

• Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $35,000
• ACTS Community Development Corporation: $16,000
• African Enterprise: $25,000
• Aid to the Church in Need: $90,000
• Aldo Leopold Foundation: $10,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $6,000
• American Enterprise Institute: $213,909
• American Foreign Policy Council: $15,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $40,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Archdiocese of Milwaukee: $13,000
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $10,000
• Badger Air Community Council: $25,000
• Badger Institute: $180,000
• Benjamin Rush Institute: $15,000
• Big Shoulders Fund: $300,000
• Building2Learn: $25,000
• Capital Research Center: $32,750
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $11,600
• Catholic Near East Welfare Association: $180,000
• Cato Institute: $102,000
• Chicago Jesuit Academy: $100,000
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater: $100,000
• Citizens Against Government Waste: $6,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $170,000
• Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives: $20,000
• Community Sports & Entertainment Support: $50,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $55,000
• Concord Chamber Orchestra Incorporated: $10,000
• Concordia University: $6,000
• Concordia University Wisconsin Foundation: $5,000
• Cross Catholic Outreach: $45,000
• Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $150,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $13,000
• Divine Savior Parish: $6,900
• Doctors Without Borders USA: $50,250
• Economics Wisconsin: $51,000
• Empower Illinois: $150,000
• Evans Scholars Foundation: $100,000
• Evergreen Freedom Foundation: $261,500
• Federalist Society: $10,000
• Feeding America: $10,000
• Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $30,000
• Foundation for Government Accountability: $25,500
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $40,000
• Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity: $6,000
• Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge: $25,000
• Fresno Pacific University: $10,000
• Georgetown University: $20,000
• Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago & Northwest Indiana: $10,000
• Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast: $5,000
• Greenhouse Solutions: $5,000
• Hillsdale College: $36,500
• Historic Preservation Association of Marshfield: $19,000
• Human Rights Foundation: $10,000
• Illinois Policy Institute: $120,000
• Immanuel Presbyterian Church: $30,000
• Institute for Free Speech: $20,000
• Institute for Justice: $11,000
• Institute for Reforming Government: $75,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $43,000
• International Christian Concern: $18,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History: $10,000
• John K MacIver Institute: $32,000
• Judicial Watch: $10,000
• Junior Achievement of Wisconsin: $10,000
• Knights of Columbus Charities: $13,500
• Leadership Institute: $30,000
• Leadership Tomorrow: $1,000
• Lyric Opera of Chicago: $15,000
• Mackinac Center: $21,000
• Madison Symphony: $6,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $27,000
• Marquette University: $10,000
• Medical College of Wisconsin: $10,000
• Media Research Center: $63,000
• Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation: $10,000
• Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: $10,000
• Milwaukee College Preparatory School: $75,000
• Milwaukee County War Memorial Center: $5,000
• Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity: $10,500
• Milwaukee Repertory Theater: $10,100
• Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $10,500
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: $25,000
• Moving Pictures Institute: $17,000
• National Association of Scholars: $10,000
• National Review Institute: $21,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $25,000
• Network of Enlightened Women: $5,500
• Neu-Life Community Development: $50,000
• New Beginnings Are Possible: $10,000
• Next Door Foundation: $10,000
• Notre Dame Schools of Milwaukee: $20,000
• Open Doors with Brother Andrew: $45,000
• Operation Dream: $50,000
• Opportunity International: $18,000
• Overseas Ministries Studies Center: $35,000
• Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $20,000
• Pax Americana Institute: $10,000
• Policy Circle: $101,000
• Prager University Foundation: $21,500
• Priests for Life: $3,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $27,000
• Project Veritas: $6,000
• Public Interest Legal Foundation: $65,553
• Running Rebels Community Organization: $262,500
• Sand County Foundation: $70,000
• Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts: $10,000
• Shirley Ryan Abilitylab: $102,500
• Society for the Propagation of the Faith: $18,000
• St. James Academy Bangalore: $41,000
• St. Marcus Lutheran School: $131,000
• St. Paul University Catholic Foundation: $10,000
• St. Augustine Preparatory Academy: $31,000
• Stanford University for Hoover Institution: $26,000
• Starboard Media Foundation: $9,000
• State Policy Network: $18,000
• Target Community & Educational Services: $10,512
• The Buckeye Institute: $30,000
• The Chicago Scholars Foundation: $150,000
• The Claremont Institute: $20,000
• The Fund for American Studies: $17,000
• The Heritage Foundation: $52,000
• The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy: $10,500
• The Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative: $10,000
• Trustees of Boston University: $24,000
• Turning Point USA: $32,500
• United Performing Arts Fund: $14,000
• United Way of Dane County: $10,000
• United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha: $20,000
• University of Chicago: $150,000
• Urbi et Orbi Communications: $11,000
• Visionsynergy: $18,000
• Wisconsin Historical Foundation: $14,500
• Wisconsin Preservation Fund: $38,277
• Witherspoon Institute: $30,000
• Woodson Center: $110,000
• Young America's Foundation: $20,500
• Youth for Christ: $25,000

2017 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2017:

• ACTS Community Development Corporation: $22,500
• Aldo Leopold Foundation: $10,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $10,000
• American Enterprise Institute: $172,135
• American Foreign Policy Council: $10,000
• American Majority: $12,000
• American Principles Project Foundation: $25,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $60,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $12,000
• Aurora Health Care Foundation: $500,000
• Badger Institute: $80,000
• Big Shoulders Fund: $300,000
• Bottom Line: $25,000
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee: $7,200
• Building2Learn: $35,000
• Capital Research Center: $13,500
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $10,000
• CARE Inc: $25,000
• Cato Institute: $104,000
• Citizens Against Government Waste: $7,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $100,000
• Collegiate Cultural Foundation: $8,000
• Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow: $8,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $55,000
• Covenant Church of Naples: $8,000
• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: $6,000
• Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $150,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $11,000
• Doctors Without Borders USA Inc: $25,000
• DonorsTrust: $10,000
• Empower Illinois: $100,000
• Evans Scholars Foundation: $12,000
• Federalist Society: $5,250
• Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $30,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $40,000
• Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity: $8,000
• Free to Choose Network: $10,000
• Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching: $25,000
• Goodwill Industries: $6,000
• Heartland Institute: $56,000
• Heritage Foundation: $22,000
• Hillsdale College: $31,500
• Historic Milwaukee: $10,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $48,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• Institute for Justice: $12,000
• John K MacIver Institute: $11,000
• Leadership Institute: $35,000
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation: $10,000
• Lyric Opera of Chicago: $65,000
• Madison Symphony: $6,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $38,000
• Marquette University-Commons: $25,000
• Media Research Center: $56,000
• Mercy Ships International: $10,000
• Milwaukee Art Museum: $8,000
• Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: $20,000
• Milwaukee College Preparatory School: $100,000
• Milwaukee County War Memorial Center: $9,000
• Milwaukee Excellence Charter School: $13,000
• Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $25,000
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: $35,000
• Moving Pictures Institute: $9,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $27,000
• Network of Enlightened Women: $7,000
• Next Door Foundation: $10,000
• Partners Advancing Values in Education: $8,000
• Princeton University: $30,000
• Rotary Club of Milwaukee: $11,000
• Sand County Foundation: $115,000
• Schools that Can Milwaukee: $62,000
• Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts: $10,000
• SMS Research Foundation: $10,017
• St. Augustine Preparatory Academy: $25,000
• St. Marcus Lutheran School: $125,000
• Stanford University for Hoover Institution: $15,000
• State Policy Network: $10,000
• Tax Foundation: $47,540
• Teach for America: $123,865
• The Chicago Scholars Foundation: $50,000
• The Fellowship of St. James: $10,000
• The Fund for American Studies: $34,500
• The Jack Miller Center: $15,000
• The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy: $59,000
• True the Vote: $13,000
• Turning Point USA: $45,000
• United Performing Arts Fund: $14,000
• University of Chicago: $150,000
• VCRT Macarthur Forum: $20,000
• VETSROLL: $10,000
• Wisconsin Council on Economic Education: $7,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: $88,000
• Woodson Center: $53,137
• Young America's Foundation: $14,250

2016 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2016:

• ACTS Community Development Corporation: $212,262
• American Enterprise Institute: $162,000
• American Foreign Policy Council: $12,000
• American Majority: $41,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $128,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Andean Health and Development: $25,000
• Capital Research Center: $10,000
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $10,000
• CARE Inc: $25,000
• Cato Institute: $100,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $110,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $50,000
• Concordia University Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $6,750
• Covenant Church of Naplespca: $10,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $10,000
• Doctors Without Borders USA Inc: $25,000
• DonorsTrust: $20,000
• Economics Wisconsin: $55,000
• Encounter for Culture and Education: $10,048
• Exploit No More: $10,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $35,000
• Free to Choose Network: $10,000
• Generation Opportunity Institute: $50,000
• Greenhouse Solutions: $16,000
• Heartland Institute: $50,000
• Hispanics for School Choice: $31,000
• Hudson Institute: $7,000
• Independent Women's Forum: $40,000
• Institute for Justice: $11,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $35,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• King's College: $29,450
• Leadership Institute: $25,000
• Lutheran High School Association: $10,000
• Lyric Opera of Chicago: $65,000
• Madison Symphony Orchestra: $56,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $36,000
• Media Research Center: $50,000
• Mercy Ships International: $10,000
• Milwaukee College Preparatory School: $25,000
• Milwaukee Excellence Charter School: $10,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $25,000
• Old St. Mary Parish: $25,000
• Pathways Milwaukee: $30,000
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $11,000
• Prager University:$25,000
• Princeton University: $25,000
• Project Veritas: $15,000
• School Choice Wisconsin: $8,500
• Schools that Can Milwaukee: $27,000
• SMS Research Foundation: $10,000
• St. Augustine Preparatory Academy: $10,000
• St. Marcus Lutheran School: $150,000
• Stanford University: $10,000
• Summit Educational Association: $25,000
• Tax Foundation: $25,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: $152,500
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute: $32,000
• WisconsinEye: $17,000
• The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy: $57,000
• The Medical College of Wisconsin: $20,000
• The Sand County Foundation: $60,000
• True the Vote: $42,500
• Turning Point USA: $10,000
• United Way of Dane County: $10,000
• Young America's Foundation: $10,000

2015 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2015:

• ACTS Community Development Corporation: $15,000
• American Enterprise Institute: $252,000
• American Majority: $42,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $60,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Capital Research Center: $11,000
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $10,000
• CARE Inc: $25,000
• Cato Institute: $105,000
• Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence: $35,000
• Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation: $15,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $110,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $52,000
• Concordia University Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $10,000
• Covenant Church of Naplespca: $15,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $15,000
• Doctors Without Borders USA Inc: $25,000
• Education Action Group Foundation Inc: $102,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $10,000
• Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity: $280,000
• Free to Choose Network: $25,000
• Generation Opportunity Institute: $50,000
• Goldwater Institute: $6,000
• Greenhouse Solutions: $15,000
• Heartland Institute: $53,000
• Institute for Justice: $10,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $10,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• Lake Country Lutheran High School: $10,000
• Leadership Institute: $25,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $28,000
• Marcus Center for the Performing Arts: $45,000
• Media Research Center: $250,000
• Mercy Ships International: $10,000
• Milwaukee Chamber Theater: $10,000
• Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $20,000
• Moving Picture Institute: $7,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $26,000
• Outreach for Hope Inc: $10,000
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $6,000
• Project Veritas: $10,000
• Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts: $49,388
• St. Marcus Lutheran School: $100,000
• State Policy Network: $8,000
• The Fund for American Studies: $10,000
• Heritage Foundation: $12,000
• Jack Miller Center: $55,000
• MacIver Institute for Public Policy: $37,000
• The Sand County Foundation: $50,000
• True the Vote: $65,000
• Wisconsin Council on Economic Education: $100,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: $40,000
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute: $65,000
• Young America's Foundation: $11,000

2014 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2014:

• Act Right Legal Foundation: $224,727
• Action (sic) Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Acton Institute): $5,000
• ACTS Community Development: $15,000
• Alliance for School Choice: $5,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $5,000
• American Council of Science and Health: $5,000
• Jack Miller Center: $5,000
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $103,500
• American Foreign Policy Council: $25,000
• American Majority: $27,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $170,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $5,000
• Atonement Lutheran School: $10,000
• C A R E INC: $25,000
• Capital Research Center: $26,000
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $10,000
• Cato Institute: $110,000
• Center for Competitive Politics: $5,000
• Citizens Against Government Waste: $5,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $100,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $52,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $15,000
• Doctors Without Boarders (sic) USA Inc: $25,000
• Economics Wisconsin (Wisconsin Council on Economics education): $105,000
• Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $45,000
• Florentine Opera: $55,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE): $10,000
• Free to Choose Network: $25,000
• Generation Opportunity Institute: $25,000
• Heartland Institute: $52,000
• Hoover on War Revolution and Peace: $5,000
• Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society: $15,000
• Human Rights Foundation: $5,000
• Institute for Humane Studies: $5,000
• Institute for Justice: $5,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $10,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• King's College: $100,000
• Landmark Legal Foundation: $5,000
• Leadership Institute: $25,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $27,500
• Marcus Center for the Performing Arts: $90,000
• Media Research Center: $250,000
• Media Trackers: $10,000
• Mercy Ships International: $10,000
• Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: $20,000
• Milwaukee College Preparatory: $10,000
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: $15,000
• Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union (AKA Historic Mount Vernon): $20,000
• Moving Pictures Institute: $7,000
• National Center for Policy Analysis: $5,000
• National Legal and Policy Center: $5,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $26,000
• National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $5,000
• Parents Television Council: $5,000
• Partners Advancing Values in Education: $10,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $5,000
• Schools That Can Milwaukee (STCM): $55,000
• State Policy Network: $8,000
• Fund for American Studies: $10,000
• Heritage Foundation: $56,000
• John K. MacIver Institute: $31,884
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $6,000
• True the Vote: $45,500
• Turning Point: $25,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: $35,500
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute: $20,500
• Young America's Foundation: $11,000

2013 Grants Given

List of grants reported for 2013:

• Act Right Legal Foundation: $250,000
• Action (sic) Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Acton Institute): $5,000
• ACTS Community Development: $15,000
• Alliance for School Choice: $5,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $10,000
• Jack Miller Center: $5,000
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $100,000
• American Majority: $20,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $55,000
• AmeriCares Foundation: $50,000
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $5,000
• Beyond Vision: $10,000
• Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere: $25,000
• Capital Research Center: $26,000
• Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education: $10,000
• Cato Institute: $105,000
• Center for Competitive Politics: $5,000
• Citizens Against Government Waste: $5,000
• Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute: $100,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $52,000
• David Horowitz Freedom Center: $20,000
• Doctors Without Boarders (sic) USA Inc: $25,000
• Economics Wisconsin: $5,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE): $5,000
• Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment: $5,000
• Free to Choose Network: $25,000
• Heartland Institute: $51,000
• Hoover on War Revolution and Peace: $5,000
• Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society: $10,000
• Human Rights Foundation: $10,000
• Institute for Humane Studies: $5,000
• Institute for Justice: $5,000
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $10,000
• International Justice Mission: $10,000
• Landmark Legal Foundation: $5,000
• Leadership Institute: $25,000
• Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $26,000
• Media Research Center: $250,000
• Media Trackers: $60,000
• Mercy Ships International: $10,000
• Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: $20,000
• Milwaukee College Preparatory: $10,000
• Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union (AKA Historic Mount Vernon): $20,000
• Moving Pictures Institute: $7,000
• Museum of Wisconsin Art: $10,000
• National Center for Policy Analysis: $10,000
• National Legal and Policy Center: $5,000
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: $26,000
• Foundation: $5,000
• Parents Television Council: $5,000
• Partners Advancing Values in Education: $11,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $5,000
• State Policy Network: $7,500
• Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $5,000
• Fund for American Studies: $10,000
• Heritage Foundation: $51,000
• John K. MacIver Institute: $42,000
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $5,000
• True the Vote: $50,000
• Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Violence-Free Zone Initiative: $25,000
• Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, $100,000
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, $15,000
• Young America's Foundation: $11,000

Bradley Impact Fund Donors

2018

• ABC Supply Company: $1,592,500
• Ann and Reed Coleman: $1,100,000
• The Boelter Companies: $782,517
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation: $2,560,965
• Brandon Golf Courses: $1,000,000
• George & Julie Mosher: $909,000
• Patrick & Rachel English: $1,504,466
• Keith Mardak: $800,000
• Phil Lundman: $1,000,000

Core Finances

2019

• Total Revenue: $14,318,062
• Total Expenses: $10,173,635
• Net Assets: $13,450,443

2018

• Total Revenue: $10,912,130
• Total Expenses: $6,946,290
• Net Assets: $8,643,203

2017

• Total Revenue: $7,047,892
• Total Expenses: $5,415,995
• Net Assets: $5,148,760

2016

• Total Revenue: $2,511,169
• Total Expenses: $3,146,400
• Net Assets: $3,393,158

2015

• Total Revenue: $4,136,052
• Total Expenses: $2,889,715
• Net Assets: $4,049,889

2014

• Total Revenues: $2,667,223
• Total Expenses: $2,589,971
• Net Assets: $2,906,836

2013

• Total Revenues: $4,806,952
• Total Expenses: $2,082,910
• Net Assets: $2,838,850

2012

• Total Revenues: $155,000
• Total Expenses: $41,196 (no grants made)
• Net Assets: $113,804

History

Founded in February 2012, the Bradley Impact Fund was developed by Robert E. Norton, then vice president for external relations at the Bradley Foundation. According to the Philanthropy Roundtable's Philanthropy Magazine, the Bradley Foundation "established the Bradley Impact Fund to encourage other donors to fund ­Bradley grantees."

Personnel

As of July 2021:

Board of Directors

• Curt S. Culver, Chairman
• Kathryn Murphy Burke
• Patrick English
• Stephen Einhorn
• James Arthur Pope
• Phillip Prange
• Sylvie Légère Ricketts

Former Board Members

• Diane Hendricks Board member of Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, former head of ABC Supply.
• Michael W. Grebe
• Michael L. Keiser Co-founder of Recycled Paper Greetings and golf course developer.
• David Uihlein, Chair; Vice Chair of Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Uihlein's family's foundation), President of Uihlein Wilson Architects.
• Stephen Einhorn, Director; manages Capital Midwest Fund, a Wisconsin venture capital fund, and runs Einhorn & Associates, a Wisconsin-based mergers and acquisitions firm. In 2012 Einhorn and his wife, Nancy Einhorn, "paid for dozens of anonymous billboards in and around Milwaukee and two Ohio cities warning residents of the penalties for committing voter fraud," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
• Dennis Kuester, Director; Chair of Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, former CEO of Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Corp.
• George Mosher, Treasurer; Founder of National Business Furniture

Staff

• Gabe Conger, President
• Richard W. Graber, Vice President
• Jason Kohout, Secretary
• Jessica F. Dean, Senior Vice President
• Sherry Street, Senior Philanthropic Advisor
• Kala J. Hill, Director of Operations
• Jason Kohout, Secretary

Former Staff

• Karen Pacioni, Donor Relations Adviser
• Cynthia Friauf, Finance Adviser

Contact

Bradley Impact Fund
1400 N. Water Street, Suite 300
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: (414) 291-2500
Email: gconger@bradleyimpactfund.org
Website: https://www.bradleyimpactfund.org

Address for donations:
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services
Attn: Grant Administration MAC: D4000-062
One West Fourth Street, 2nd Floor
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Articles and Resources

IRS Form 990 Filings

2019

2018

2017

2016

External Articles and Resources

• David Armiak, Talent Market: The Libertarian Headhunting Firm Serving the Koch Network and the Bradley Foundation, ExposedbyCMD, June 28, 2017.
• Mary Bottari, Weaponized Philanthropy: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation’s Efforts to Build Right-Wing “Infrastructure” Nationwide, ExposedbyCMD, May 5, 2017.