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Madcaps Inc

The mission of madcaps is to involve mothers and daughters in directservice to and support of established philanthropic organizations.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$152kHuman Services$60kHousing & Shelter$42kRecreation & Sports$31kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $83,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA$10,000
TRS$10,000
AUTISM TREE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YWCA BECKYS HOUSE: $10k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $7k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $6k → 11%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$239k · 9 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$239k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsHealthReligionOther
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

  • AT
    AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
  • ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +124%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA
    2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • DS
    DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -61%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +48%
  • YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -29%
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
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
2
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
3
San Diego Seniors Community Foundation

To increase awareness and action toward issues impacting seniors and to increase philanthropy to senior-focused organizations. together, we can create a future where seniors are no longer vulnerable but vibrant.

Human Services
4
Elderhelp of San Diego

Elderhelp of san diego, inc. is a california non-profit public benefit corporation formed for the purpose of providing personalized services, information, and coordinated care to help san diego's seniors remain independent and live with…

Human Services
5
Community Eldercare of San Diego Dba St Paul's Pace

To be the leader in providing all-inclusive innovative solutions to the health and social service needs of san diego's elderly.

Human Services
6
San Diego Kind Corporation

San diego kind corporation, a ca non profit organization, creates and develops housing and services for the low income elderly and also contributes to other low income senior service and housing projects.

Housing & Shelter
7
San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation

San diego interfaith housing foundation's mission is to sponsor and assist in the development of quality low cost, single and multi-family housing for low income and handicapped persons in the greater san diego metropolitan area.

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8
San Francisco Senior and Disability Action Dba Senior & Disability Action

Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…

Unclassified
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
11
Sdhc Building Opportunities Inc

The organization's mission is to improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents of the city of san diego and county of san diego.

Community Improvement
12
Housing Development Partners of San Diego

To preserve and increase affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $112,235 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSD ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION: $12,000 · OtherSD ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATIONST PAUL'S SENIOR SERVICE: $12,000 · OtherST PAUL'S SENIOR SERVICEYMCA: $10,000 · OtherTRS: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $22,383 · Other+4 moreAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $28,729 · HealthAUTISM TR…SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $17,281 · Housing & ShelterST PAUL'S RETIREMENT HOMES FOUNDATION: $5,383 · Housing & ShelterSERVING SENIORS: $12,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,094 · Human ServicesDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $13,858 · Recreation & SportsThe San Diego River Park Foundation: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $13,958 · ReligionSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $12,000 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,767 · International
Other$197,118Health$28,729Housing & Shelter$22,664Human Services$22,094Recreation & Sports$19,358Religion$13,958Animals$12,000International$10,767

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 budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $28,729 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $17,281 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $13,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $13,858 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,767 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,094 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER INC: $5,383 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL'S RETIREMENT HOMES FOUNDATION: $5,383 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Samuel I & John Henry…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Madcaps Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madcaps Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 20 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 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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