[6] The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael S. Joyce, helped to create the Philanthropy Roundtable, a group of American philanthropists that, as of 2018, has 660 members (consisting of both individuals and organizations).

[8] The Bradley Foundation acts like "a venture capital fund for conservative ideas", in the words of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2011.

Public records show that, since 2012, the foundation has spent some eighteen million dollars supporting eleven conservative groups involved in election issues.

[11][12] In a 2018 interview, the foundation's CEO, Richard Graber, described its four major areas of funding as "constitutional order", education (in particular school choice), civil society, and arts and culture.

[2] In that interview, Graber said that the foundation would deemphasize some areas in which it had previously made grants, including national security and foreign policy.

[1] Winners[18] have included Fouad Ajami (2006), John Bolton (2007), Martin Feldstein (2007), Victor Davis Hanson (2008), Leonard Leo (2009), William Kristol (2009), Paul A. Gigot (2010), Jeb Bush (2011),[19] Edwin Meese III (2012), Roger Ailes (2013),[20] Paul Clement (2013), Mitch Daniels (2013), Yuval Levin (2013),[21] Kimberley Strassel (2014),[22] Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2015), James Ceaser (2015), Gary Sinise (2016),[23] Peter Berkowitz (2017), Charles R. Kesler (2018),[18] Roger Kimball (2019), Amity Shlaes (2021),[24] Glenn Loury (2022),[25] John H. Cochrane (2023), and Jay Bhattacharya (2024).