Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

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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 neoconservative groups. While the Foundation does not take explicit foreign policity 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 millon in assets and disbursed in excess of $32 million in 2006.[2]

References

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