The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
1241 N. Franklin Pl. Milwaukee, WI 53202-2901
Telephone: (414) 291 -9915
Contact: Daniel P. Schmidt, V.P., Progs.
Fax: (414) 291-9991
URL: www.bradleyfdn.org

Financial Data (yr. ended 12/31/06): Assets: $783,890,750; Total giving: $32,243,125

Limitations
Giving primarily in Milwaukee, WI; giving also on a national and international basis. No support for strictly denominational projects. No grants to individuals (except for Bradley Prizes), or for endowment funds.

Purpose and Activities
Support for projects that cultivate a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship, at home and abroad. Projects will reflect the assumption that free men and women are genuinely self -governing, personally responsible citizens, able to run their daily affairs without the intrusive therapies of the bureaucratic, social service state. Consequently, they will seek to reinvigorate and revive the authority of the traditional institutions of civil society - families, schools, churches, neighborhoods, and entrepreneurial enterprises - that cultivate and provide room for the exercise of citizenship, individual responsibility, and strong moral character.

Projects reflecting this view of citizenship and civil society may be demonstrations with national significance; public policy research in economics, politics, culture, or foreign affairs; or media and public education undertakings. Local support is directed toward cultural programs, education, social services, medical and health programs, and public policy research.

Fields of Interest Subjects
Arts
Economics
Education
International affairs
International affairs, foreign policy
Political science

Geographic Focus
National; international

Types of Support
Annual campaigns Building/renovation continuing support Curriculum development Equipment
General/operating support Internship funds Matching/challenge support Professorships
Program-related investments/loans
Program development
Publication Research Scholarship funds

Application Information
Application form not required. Initial approach: Letter of inquiry Copies of proposal: 1
Board meeting date(s): Feb., May or June, Aug., and
Nov. Deadline(s): Mar. 1, June 1, Sept. 1, and Dec. 1
Final notification: 3 to 5 months

Unsolicited Proposals
Two steps are required in the application process. First, the applicant should prepare a brief
letter of inquiry to the Grant Program, describing the applying organization and its intended
project. If the Foundation determines the project to be within the current program interests as
determined by its Board of Directors, the applicant will be invited to submit a formal proposal.
Second, if invited to submit a formal proposal, the applicant should submit another letter. It
should include a more-thorough, yet still concise description of the project, its objectives and
significance, and the qualifications of the groups and individuals involved in it. It should also
include a project budget, the specific amount being sought from Bradley, and a list of its other
sources of support, philanthropic or otherwise. See the checklist for developing a detailed enough proposal.

Selected Grants
The following grants were reported in 2007:

• $3,000,000 to charter School Growth Fund, Broomfield, CO. For general operating
  support, payable over 1 year.
• $1,550,000 to American Civil Rights Institute, Sacramento, CA. For public education
  about race - preferential governmental policies and practices, payable over 1 year.
• $1,000,000 to Encounter for Culture and Education, Milwaukee, WI. For general
  operations, payable over 1 year.
• $1,000,000 to Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. For construction of new law school,
  payable over 1 year.
• $425,000 to American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington,
  DC. For Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, work of Karlyn Bowman, Bradley Lectures,
  and conference on utopian ideologies and political violence, payable over 1 year.
• $400,000 to National Strategy Information Center, Washington, DC. For general
  operations, payable over 1 year.
• $300,000 to Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE. For Civic Literacy Project
  and University Reform Program, payable over 1 year.
• $50,000 to American Symphony Orchestra League, New York, NY. For Learning and
  Leadership Development seminars, payable over 1 year.
• $50,000 to Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC. For First Principles Project, payable
  over 1 year.
• $50,000 to University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. For evaluation of Milwaukee
  Parental Choice Program, payable over 1 year.