How much does Madison Trust give?

Madison Trust reported 5 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Madison Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Madison Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Madison Parks Division ($122k), Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc ($43k), Madison Youth Choirs Inc ($24k).

Does Madison Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Madison Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Madison Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Madison Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2025: 5
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $18,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 7; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $410k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Madison Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEmploymentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$30k	0%
FY2024	5	$30k	20%
FY2023	4	$30k	0%
FY2022	4	$25k	25%
FY2021	3	$26k	0%
FY2020	3	$25k	0%
FY2019	4	$25k	0%
FY2018	7	$28k	29%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$122kEnvironment$43kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$20kAnimals$14kEducation$7kRecreation & Sports$6kHealth$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Madison Parks Division	$121,500	9	n/a
Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc	$43,000	9	0%
Madison Youth Choirs Inc	$24,000	9	1%
Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Occupaws Guide Dog Association	$12,000	4	1%
Lussier Community Education Center Inc	$7,000	2	0%
Community Support Network Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Operation Fresh Start Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs Inc	$2,000	1	1%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Madison Trust supplied at peak.

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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 8.

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.

Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jennie H Olson Charitable Foundation · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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About Madison Trust

How much does Madison Trust give?: Madison Trust reported 5 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Madison Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Madison Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Madison Parks Division ($122k), Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc ($43k), Madison Youth Choirs Inc ($24k).
Does Madison Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Madison Trust accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Madison Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
Where is Madison Trust based?: Madison Trust is based in DE.