· Private foundation
Madmone Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BON SECOURS FOUNDATION | $77,500 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH | $25,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART | $25,000 |
| FEED MORE | $15,000 |
| CKG FDN SPEAK UP | $15,000 |
| OURAY ICE PARK | $15,000 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $10,000 |
| COLORADO GRAND INC | $10,000 |
| AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERV | $7,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| RIVER CITY DISC GOLF CLUB | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +73%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +8%- FMFEED MORE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- BSBONS SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- HWHumane World for Animals Internationalone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Vcu health children's services at brook road (csbr), fka crippled children's hospital, is a resource and provider of specialized medical services customized to meet the specific needs of children and their families.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
Children's health foundation (chf) supports children's health system (chs) and children's hospital of the king's daughters (chkd). chf is organized and operated to carry out the charitable, educational and scientific purposes of chs and…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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 ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OURAY ICE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GRAND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Reco Foundation · Luck Companies Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation
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 Madmone Inc 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.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% 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.