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Madison Community Foundation
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 376 grants below total $13,648,918 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,553,217 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,904,299 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k128 grants · $935k
- $10k–50k192 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k50 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,980,004 |
| AFRICA6000 INTERNATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY | $500,000 |
| SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY | $354,200 |
| MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $248,572 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $220,756 |
| MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $211,373 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY | $209,845 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $201,456 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY | $180,000 |
| MADISON OPERA INC | $154,434 |
| MADISON COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY | $127,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
282 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000k 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
- BBBUILDING BRAVE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3.7M · revenue +146% · 93% of their budget
- WIWORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL3× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +53%
- WCWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CCCITY CHURCH MADISON INCone grant, 2021 · $600k
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF BARABOOone grant, 2020 · $600k
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $254k · revenue +21%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
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Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
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Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generations Humanitarian. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
396 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. 396 of the 522 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRAVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
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: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland 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 Madison Community 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.