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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has Internal Revenue Service 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit, nonpolitical status. "Its grants support research and educational projects, programs, and other activities that effectively further the Bradley brothers' philanthropic intent and honor their legacy", defined by the board of directors as:

The Bradley brothers were committed to preserving and defending the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise that has enabled the American nation and, in a larger sense, the entire Western world to flourish intellectually and economically. The Bradleys believed that the good society is a free society. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is likewise devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, intellectual, and cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions. In addition, recognizing that responsible self-government depends on enlightened citizens and informed public opinion, the Foundation supports scholarly studies and academic achievement.[1]

These activities range from support of local Milwaukee culture through programs with worldwide impact for the Bradleys' conception of American values.

While it is relatively small compared to U.S. philanthropic organizations with a wider scope, it has been described as "America's largest and most influential right-wing organization" the support it provides to neoconservatism|neoconservative groups. While the Foundation does not take explicit foreign policy positions, it is among the major funding sources of the Hudson Institute, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Heritage Foundation. At the end of 2007, it had $831 million in assets and disbursed in excess of $32 million in 2006.[2]

Examination of its grantee list, while it certainly shows conservative organization, also contains respected education and research organizations. A grant may be earmarked for a conservative-identified program.

Grantmaking, 2008

It made grants in the following categories:

Improve Education

Promote Economic Growth and Prosperity

Revitalize Civil Society

Strengthen Private Initiative

Defend and Advance Freedom

Intellectual Infrastructure

Legacy in Milwaukee

Donor Intent Program

Revitalize civil society

International orientation

  • Aid to the Church in Russia, Great Falls, Va.; To support the translation and publication of Vatican II documents $21,850
  • Benedictus Foundation, Munich; To support the Institute for Business Anthropology at the University of Munich 35,000
  • Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support a summit of European civil-society leaders 25,000
  • Catholic Near East Welfare Association, New York To support a seminar on Islam at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies25,000
  • Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support a fellowship at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity 200,000
  • Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Ann Arbor, Mich.; To support research and education in the Czech Republic 25,000
  • Committee for Cultural Collaboration, Rome; To support general program activities related to promoting contact between Eastern and Western Christianity 55,000
  • Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae, St. Gallen, Switzerland; To support a forum on the family 140,000
  • Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Arlington, Va.; To support an international conference 50,000, To support general operations 35,000

Defend and Advance Freedom program

  • Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations $40,000
  • American Committees on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.; To support the national speakers program 30,000
  • American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.' To support general operations $150,000
  • Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; To support the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic $150,000
  • Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations; $25,000
  • Center for Security Policy, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations and the Hemispheric Security Project 100,000
  • Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington, D.C.; To support research and education 100,000
  • Council on Foreign Relations, New York; To support a research project on guerrilla warfare 25,000
  • Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia; To support the Center for the Study of America and the West 100,000
  • Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C.; To support research and public education 190,000, To support academic programs 100,000
  • Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World 225,000; To support a visiting fellowship 100,000
  • Human Rights Foundation, New York; To support general operations 40,000
  • Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Mass.; To support a project on democracy in Latin America 150,000. To support the Washington, D.C., office 115,000
  • Institute for International Studies, Washington, D.C.; To support the Culture of Lawfulness education program 200,000
  • Institute for the Study of War, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations 30,000
  • Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.; to support general operations 30,000
  • School of Advanced International Studies,Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.; To support the Strategic Studies program 25,000, To support a seminar series on U.S. foreign policy 20,000
  • Middle East Forum, Philadelphia; To support program activities 75,000
  • Middle East Media Research Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support program activities 50,000
  • Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Miss.; To support a project on Asian energy security 20,000, Continued support of a project on Asian energy security 40,000
  • National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle; To support the Strategic Asia Program, the Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, and a conference on China’s military capabilities 235,000
  • National Defense Council Foundation, Arlington, Va.; To support general operations 25,000
  • National Strategy Information Center, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations 400,000
  • Naval War College Foundation, Newport, R.I.; To support the Center for the Study of Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups 150,000
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; To support the Strategic Studies program 41,000
  • Foundation for American Renewal, Indianapolis; To support the planning of a commission 60,000
  • Freedom House, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations 150,000
  • German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, D.C.; To support the Transatlantic Academy 300,000
  • Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support the Center for Religious Freedom 50,000, To support a study of private investment in Rwanda 100,000
  • Institute for Global Engagement, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations 150,000; To support The Review of Faith & International Affairs 35,000
  • International Development Enterprises, Lakewood, Colo.; To support general operations 20,000
  • International Theological Institute for Studies in Marriage and the Family, Gaming, Austria; To support the MTS degree program and a symposium 75,000
  • Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, Rome; To support general operations 25,000
  • Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York; To support a project on crime and violence in the Americas 70,000
  • National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.; To support an evaluation of democracy promotion|democracy assistance] 100,000, To support the Journal of Democracy 80,000
  • Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome; To support various activities in interfaith dialogue 150,000; To support the Bradley Lecture and academic programs
  • Pro Oriente Foundation, Vienna' To support the translation and publication of a conference publication and a research project on the Union of Brest 38,900
  • Project on Transitional Democracies, Washington, D.C. To support the “Frontiers of Freedom” project 75,000
  • Russian Orthodox Church, Vienna; To support a requiem concert for and commemoration of the victims of communism and the Europaica website90,000; too support the publishing and printing of an album 50,000
  • SAT-7 North America, Hastings, Minn.; To support television programming for women and children 25,000
  • St. Adalbert Center of Instruction, Budapest; To support meetings and conferences 35,000
  • St. Michael’s Choir School, Toronto; To support a concert 20,000
  • Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, Chicago; To support general operations 105,000
  • Urbi et Orbi Communications, New Hope, Ky.; To support creation of an international institute 300,000; To support Inside the Vatican 80,000
  • U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington, D.C.; To support a tour of pianist Kim Cheol-Woong 10,000
  • Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C.; To support the virtual Global Museum on Communism 50,000
  • We Remember Foundation, Washington, D.C.; To support democracy promotion in Belarus 20,000
  • Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, N.J.; To support the Latin America Study Group; 100,000
  • Worldfund, New York; To support the Inter-American Partnership for Education 25,000

National

  • Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, Grand Rapids, Mich.; To support general operations 90,000
  • American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Washington, D.C.; To support The Bradley Project on America’s National Identity 50,000
  • Baylor University, Waco, Tex.; To support maintenance of the Keston Center for Religion, Politics, & Society archives 15,000
  • Boston University, Boston; To support an Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs project on Evangelical scholarship 95,000
  • Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich. To support a project on religion, civic responsibility, and renewing the American Experiment 96,800
  • Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Washington, D.C.; To support general operations 500,000
  • Civil Society Project, Lancaster, Penn.; To support general operations 50,000
  • Collegiate Cultural Foundation, Media, Penn.;To support a conference of The Love and Fidelity Network 30,000
  • Families Northwest, Bellevue, Wash.; To support general operations 25,000
  • Fellowship of St. James, Chicago; to support general operations 25,000
  • Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; To support the First Principles Initiative 50,000
  • Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.; To support the Center for American Common Culture 25,000
  • Institute for American Values, New York; To support general operations 100,000
  • Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wis.; To support a conference on faith-based organizations 15,000
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. To support the “New Visitors Experience” 500,000
  • Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York; To support general operations 200,000
  • Marriage Savers, Potomac, Md.; To support Community Marriage Policies 75,000

References

  1. Board of Directors, Bradley Foundation Mission Program Guidelines, Bradley Foundation
  2. "Bradley Foundation", RightWeb, 24 February 2009