Illinois · Private foundation
Madigan Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2026
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $294,810
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 78
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 12
- Total assets, FY2026
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 11% of the organizations Madigan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 81 | $1.4M | 27% |
| FY2025 | 72 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $972k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $1.0M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $1.0M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $549k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polaris Charter Academy | $530,000 | 6 | 2% |
| St Sabina Church | $380,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $222,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Commercial Club Foundation | $215,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jupiter Island Garden Clubinc | $175,450 | 5 | 61% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy Inc | $101,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Madigan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · CMB Foundation · Scott Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Krimendahlsaint-Amand Foundation · Legatus Foundation · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · The Gorter Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Madigan Family Foundation
- How much does Madigan Family Foundation give?
- Madigan Family Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $1,463,660 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 78 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Madigan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (16%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Madigan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Polaris Charter Academy ($530k), St Sabina Church ($380k), The Everglades Foundation Inc ($222k).
- Does Madigan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 11% 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 Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation.
- Where is Madigan Family Foundation based?
- Madigan Family Foundation is based in IL.
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