· Private foundation
Bartley J Madden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $750,000 |
| LIBERTAS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $40,000 |
| EMERGENT ORDER FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG VOICES | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL EXCHANGE | $20,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIFT USA | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY - OPEN THE BOOKS | $20,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +36%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +66%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- TCTHE CURE STARTS NOW INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +6%
- CFCENTER FOR ETHICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPone grant, 2019 · $21k
- CFCENTER FOR ETHICS AND ENTREPRENEURSIPone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
We inspire college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles that make america good, free, and prosperous.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT USA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds Emergent Order Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Young Voices ↗
- Who funds THE CURE STARTS NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Dunn Foundation · The Armstrong Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · State Policy Network · John William Pope Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · JP Humphreys Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bartley J Madden Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.