· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATIONS | $16,000 |
| CSJ (SHAWN'S SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONOLET) | $10,000 |
| JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SERRA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $6,000 |
| MAUTHE CENTER | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN | $6,000 |
| SACRED HEART SEMINARY AND SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $6,000 |
| BAY SETTLEMENT SISTERS (OF ST FRANCIS OF THE HOLY CROSS) | $6,000 |
| GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| ECUMENICAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR MENTAL WELLNESS | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISERRA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +17%
- FOFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +24%
- FHFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $19k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CCCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
- SOSISTER OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELETone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NWNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
New community shelter foundation, inc. is organized and operated for charitable, educational, religious, and scientific purposes exclusively for the benefit and support of the greater green bay community foundation, inc.
To develop, administer and conduct housing rehabilitation services; and to provide home ownership counseling and other related neighborhood improvement activities.
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
Congregational home's mission is an extension of the mission of first congregational church -waukesha, whose mission is to maintain a caring community for the elderly offering healthcare and other services. congregational home declares…
Guest House of Milwaukee provides a full continuum of services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing housing. Guest House serves more than 2,000 individuals annually through emergency shelter, housing,…
Rooted in our catholic tradition and commitment to christian love and community, milwaukee catholic home, inc. (mch) provides continuing care services for older adults.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
As faith calls us to minister with our neighbors, ecumenical partnership for housing provides safety, stability, and solutions leading to self-sufficiency for families with children facing homelessness
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
The lutheran home, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky 7 Dog Rescue Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SERRA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HILL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Madigan Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.