· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k45 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $537k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $495k
- $250k+1 grant · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $294,810 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $115,000 |
| POLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| ST SABINA ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| BANNER LAKE CLUB | $50,000 |
| RAVINIA | $33,700 |
| ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| ST SABINA CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MJ FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER CHURCH | $25,000 |
| PLANET WORD | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
97 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2026, 38 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC4× · 2023–2026 · $222k · revenue +41%- JIJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC5× · 2021–2026 · $175k · revenue +110% · 61% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY5× · 2021–2026 · $170k · revenue +130%
Funded once
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +67%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- HIHOOVER INSTITUTION- SUMMER POLICY BOOT CAMPone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 201 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds POLARIS CHARTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES PLAINES WETLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Madigan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madigan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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