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Bartley J Madden Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$750,000
LIBERTAS NETWORK$50,000
STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY$40,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL EXCHANGE$20,000
FREEDOM FOUNDATION$20,000
EMERGENT ORDER FOUNDATION INC$20,000
LIFT USA$20,000
AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY - OPEN THE BOOKS$20,000
MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE$20,000
YOUNG VOICES$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION$20,000
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$20,000
PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 25 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$5.7M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+6%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceCivil RightsReligionEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +36%
  • FF
    Foundation for Economic Education Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +66%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CURE STARTS NOW INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ETHICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
3
Liberty Justice Center

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
6
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
8
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

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.

Public Benefit
9
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc

We inspire college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles that make america good, free, and prosperous.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

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.

—
11
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $190,000 · EducationSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INCAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $120,000 · Education+5 more: $175,000 · EducationTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $750,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTEFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $195,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNME…ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $145,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITU…Libertas Network: $80,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network+2 more: $55,000 · Public BenefitCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $110,000 · OtherCOMPETITIVE …THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $60,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALI…Young Voices: $55,000 · OtherYoung VoicesHUMAN ACHIEVEMENT ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · OtherHUMAN ACHIEV…FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOUN…MACKINAC CENTER PUBLIC POLICY: $30,000 · OtherTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $61,000 · OtherTHE PHILANTH…THE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE CURE STA…MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $40,000 · OtherMOVING PICTU…+10 more: $171,000 · Other+10 moreFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $225,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $10,000 · Social ScienceLIFT USA: $157,500 · ReligionFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $85,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $35,000 · Civil RightsThe Cara Program: $65,000 · Employment
Education$3,485,000Public Benefit$1,225,000Other$657,000Social Science$235,000Religion$157,500Civil Rights$120,000Employment$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetLeadership Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 IncThe Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Dunn FoundationThe Armstrong Foundat…The Searle Freedom Tr…State Policy NetworkJohn William Pope Fou…Adolph Coors Foundati…The Dupage Community …JP Humphreys Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bartley J Madden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bartley J Madden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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