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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$1.0M15%
FY202413$250k31%
FY202312$940k25%
FY202215$1.0M33%
FY202112$1.0M42%
FY202012$221k33%
FY201911$441k18%
FY201810$428k20%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.3MPublic Benefit$1.4MSocial Science$316kCivil Rights$265kReligion$158kCommunity Improvement$130kArts & Culture$125kEmployment$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $3,000,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $225,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFoundation for Government Accountability Inc: $195,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetStudents for Liberty Inc: $190,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLift USA: $157,500 over 8y, 75% of budgetIllinois Policy Institute: $145,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Transparency: $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCompetitive Enterprise Institute: $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLibertas Network: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEmergent Order Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Cara Program: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $61,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Voices: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Cure Starts Now Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMoving Picture Institute: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Reason Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Culture Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConscious Capitalism Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFreedomworks Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Institute for Economic Research: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNetwork of Enlightened Women Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Corporate Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Donors Trust IncVA25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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