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Madden Charities

To be involved with and support youth groups of the tri-vally and east bay area as well as providing medical research in fields of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0170% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$580kRecreation & Sports$510kHealth$285kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,058,598, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,087,598 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $431k
  • $250k+2 grants · $535k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$275,000
COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO$260,000
CAL POLY$186,268
UCSF COLLEGE TRACK$150,000
BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOF$95,000
OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$19,705
VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
BUSN CARD-PGRM UNIV OF OHIO$10,125
JOHN BURTON ADV FOR YOUTH$10,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY$10,000
IU FOUNDATION$10,000
MARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
MUSEUM ON MAIN$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO: $260k → 7%STANFORD HEALTH CARE 227: $10k → 8%COLLEGE TRACK: $220k → 10%JOHN BURTON ADV FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%CAL POLY: $186k → 12%BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOF: $95k → 13%BUSN CARD-PGRM UNIV OF OHIO: $10k → 22%UCSF COLLEGE TRACK: $150k → 10%CAL POLY: $172k → 12%BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOF: $15k → 13%COLLEGE TRACK: $130k → 10%CAL POLY: $128k → 12%FOOTHILL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $10k → 10%FOOTHILL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $9k → 10%VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY: $10k → 10%VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%BISHOP ODOWD HIGH SCHOOL: $200k → 10%MUSEUM ON MAIN: $8k → 10%OAKLAND TECH BOYS BASKETBALL: $10k → 10%BISHOP ODOWD HIGH SCHOOL: $150k → 10%MUSEUM ON MAIN: $8k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $1.0M → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $974k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $853k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $712k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $701k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $199k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $56k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $55k → 10%OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY WINE AUCTION: $10k → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 9 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$6.7M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • OC
    OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $550k · revenue 0%
  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PC
    PTC CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • LV
    LIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -35%
  • SH
    STANFORD HEALTH CARE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
7
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
8
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
9
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
10
Uc Law Sf Foundation

To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.

Education
11
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
12
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Valley Humane SocietyInc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $4,603,779 · OtherOTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONOAKLAND LITERACY COALITION: $350,000 · OtherOAKLAND LITERACY COALITION+3 more: $38,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $550,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN …COLLEGE TRACK: $500,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKCAL POLY CORPORATION: $485,997 · EducationCAL POLY CORPORATIONSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $260,000 · EducationSan Mateo County Community Co…+2 more: $20,125 · EducationBLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME INC: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsValley Humane SocietyInc: $25,000 · AnimalsLIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmador Livermore Valley Historical Society: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $10,000 · Health
Other$4,992,279Education$1,816,122Recreation & Sports$110,000Animals$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Arts & Culture$15,000Youth Development$10,000Health$10,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $485,997 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $260,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetValley Humane SocietyInc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTHILL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $18,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAmador Livermore Valley Historical Society: $15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $10,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTC CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Madden Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madden Charities. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Madden Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Madden Charities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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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