Florida · 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Bartley J Madden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $1.0M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $250k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $940k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.0M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.0M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $221k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $441k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $428k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | $3,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Heartland Institute | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Foundation for Economic Education Inc | $225,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Foundation for Government Accountability Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Students for Liberty Inc | $190,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Lift USA | $157,500 | 8 | 75% |
| Illinois Policy Institute | $145,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Transparency | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Competitive Enterprise Institute | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bartley J Madden Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Bartley J Madden Foundation
- How much does Bartley J Madden Foundation give?
- Bartley J Madden Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,035,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bartley J Madden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Public Benefit (24%), Social Science (5%).
- Who are Bartley J Madden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc ($3.0M), The Heartland Institute ($750k), Foundation for Economic Education Inc ($225k).
- Does Bartley J Madden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bartley J Madden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bartley J Madden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Charles Koch Foundation.
- Where is Bartley J Madden Foundation based?
- Bartley J Madden Foundation is based in FL.
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