Brady Education Foundation

About Brady Education Foundation

Brady Education Foundation Inc. centers its grantmaking on the care and education of children, with a clear tilt toward university-based research and applied evaluation. Its largest recent award in the data was $268,646 to Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, for work to promote the care and education of children, and the pattern continues with substantial grants to Boston College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Pittsburgh. The foundation supports research that can inform education practice and public policy, rather than one-off direct service alone. That emphasis shows up in its active grant programs, which include investigator-initiated research, developmental and educational research, and evaluations of existing education programs. Recent grants also point to a mix of institutional partners: research universities, child development centers, and intermediary organizations such as New Venture Fund and American Institutes for Research. North Carolina remains an important part of the portfolio, with awards to Chapel Hill, Asheville, and Raleigh, alongside broader national funding to institutions in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia, California, Missouri, New York, Maryland, and Washington, DC.

What Brady Education Foundation Funds

In early childhood development research, the foundation gave $227,225 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Frank Porter Graham Child Dev in 2024, and $84,338 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025. Those awards fit a broader pattern of supporting university settings where child development, measurement, and educational outcomes can be studied over time. The foundation also funds program evaluation and evidence generation: it awarded $150,000 to American Institutes for Research in Chapel Hill in 2024, and its active Existing Program Evaluations program is designed for studies of effectiveness, moderators, mediators, and cost-benefit analysis. Child-focused regional partnerships appear as well, including $150,000 to Buncombe Partnership for Children in Asheville in 2025 and $12,000 to Public School Forum of North Carolina in Raleigh in 2023. Intermediary organizations are part of the mix too, including $115,000 to Trust for Learning Co New Venture Fund in Washington, DC in 2023.

How Brady Education Foundation Gives