Skip to content

Wisconsin · Private foundation

Madigan Family 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.

$128k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 23
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Madigan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving20$128k25%
FY202420$110k45%
FY202319$120k21%
FY202220$165k65%
FY202123$166kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$213kHealth$109kArts & Culture$69kHousing & Shelter$55kEducation$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kHuman Services$31kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
NE
MO
MD
AR
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Serra International Foundation$51,00053%
Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc$40,00050%
Catholic Relief Services$31,0004n/a
Jackie Nitschke Center Inc$28,00030%
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc$25,00030%
Sisters of St Francis of the Holy Cross$23,0003n/a
Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc$18,50020%
Ecumenical Foundation Inc$18,000317%
Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet$18,0002n/a
National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion Inc$12,5002n/a
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Madigan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Serra International Foundation$51,00053%
Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc$40,00050%
Catholic Relief Services$31,0004n/a
Jackie Nitschke Center Inc$28,00030%
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc$25,00030%
Sisters of St Francis of the Holy Cross$23,0003n/a
Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc$18,50020%
Ecumenical Foundation Inc$18,000317%
Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet$18,0002n/a
National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion Inc$12,5002n/a
The Gathering Place Inc$10,00023%
Curative Connections Inc$10,00010%
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem$10,0002n/a
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Education Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Heritage Hill Corporation$10,00011%
Freedom House Ministries Inc$10,00011%
New Community Shelter Inc$8,20020%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc$6,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc$6,00011%
Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity$6,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,00010%
Golden House Inc$5,00010%
Lucky 7 Dog Rescue Corporation$2,50012%
Section Sober Inc$2,00011%
National Railroad Museum Inc$10010%
Notre Dame de la Baie Academy Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($323k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Madigan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSerra International Foundation: $51,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJackie Nitschke Center Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFoundations Health & Wholeness Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEcumenical Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Gathering Place Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCurative Connections Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Wisconsin Technical College Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHeritage Hill Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFreedom House Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Community Shelter Inc: $8,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGreater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLucky 7 Dog Rescue Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSection Sober Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Railroad Museum Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 20.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Feeco International Foundation Inc · Cloud Family Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc

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.

Compare Madigan Family Foundation with peer funders

About Madigan Family Foundation

How much does Madigan Family Foundation give?
Madigan Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $128,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Madigan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Madigan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Serra International Foundation ($51k), Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc ($40k), Catholic Relief Services ($31k).
Does Madigan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Madigan Family 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 Madigan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, George Kress Foundation Inc.
Where is Madigan Family Foundation based?
Madigan Family Foundation is based in WI.

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 54 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Madigan Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph