Many of Bradley's grantees are among the leading organizations of the right wing, particularly among neoconservatives, some of which played instrumental roles in shaping and promoting the "war on terror" policies of the George W. Bush administration. In 2013, Bradley gave money to a host of neoconservative organizations and other groups espousing hardline foreign policy nationalism, including: American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute, Manhattan Institute, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Institute on Religion and Public Life, Ethics and Public Policy Center, American Foreign Policy Council, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Hoover Institution, among many others
Government-connected institutions also obtain grants from Bradley. The National Endowment for Democracy received $80,000 in 2007 in part for the publication of The Journal of Democracy,[22] and the International Republican Institute received $26,000 in 2003.[23]
Past grantees have included the neoconservative Project for the New American Century ($200,000) and Marquette University, which received $20,000 for a research project on Norman Podhoretz.[24]
The Bradley Foundation has also been cited as a sponsor of the “Islamophobia network” in the United States. According to a 2011 report by the Center for American Progress, Bradley has funded an array of groups promoting Islamophobia and militaristic U.S. foreign policies in the Middle East, including the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.[25]