Virginia · 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.
- $362k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Madmone Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $362k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $330k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $289k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $313k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $331k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $296k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $258k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $211k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Society of the Sacred Heart United States Canada Province Inc | $160,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $138,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Marys Church | $80,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Feed More Inc | $79,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Collegiate School | $79,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ouray Ice Park Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $59,250 | 7 | 0% |
| The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation | $55,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Colorado Outward Bound School | $36,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Madmone Inc supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Madmone Inc
- How much does Madmone Inc give?
- Madmone Inc reported 39 grants totaling $361,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Madmone Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Madmone Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Society of the Sacred Heart United States Canada Province Inc ($160k), Anna Julia Cooper School ($139k), Worcester Polytechnic Institute ($100k).
- Does Madmone Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Madmone Inc 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 Madmone Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Carmax Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is Madmone Inc based?
- Madmone Inc is based in VA.
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