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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$582kEducation$428kArts & Culture$363kReligion$320kHealth$305kAnimals$117kFood & Nutrition$106kRecreation & Sports$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BON SECOURS FOUNDATION$77,500
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$50,000
SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART$25,000
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH$25,000
CKG FDN SPEAK UP$15,000
RICHMOND SPCA$15,000
FEED MORE$15,000
OURAY ICE PARK$15,000
COLORADO GRAND INC$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$10,000
AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERV$7,000
RIVER CITY DISC GOLF CLUB$6,000
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$6,000
RICK SHARP ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 6%SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC: $4k → 6%THORN: $4k → 14%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $12k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $10k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $5k → 22%FATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INS: $2k → 7%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INS: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 57 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
28

Total granted

$2.4M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

58%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +73%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +8%
  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • BS
    BONS SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals International
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
4
Vcu Health Childrens Services at Brook Road

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.

Health
5
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
6
Children's Health Foundation

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…

Health
7
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
8
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
9
Chip of Virginia

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,…

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10
Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

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.

—
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BON SECOURS FOUNDATION: $412,500 · OtherBON SECOURS FOUNDATIONWPI: $350,000 · OtherWPISOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART UNITED STATES CANADA PROVINCE INC: $160,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART UNITED STATES CANADA PROVINCE INCWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTECLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH: $92,500 · OtherST MARYS CHURCH: $80,000 · Other+55 more: $651,000 · Other+55 moreANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $138,500 · EducationANNA JULIA…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $79,000 · EducationTHE COLLEG…UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $55,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesHENRICO CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHORN: $4,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $59,250 · AnimalsAMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC: $29,500 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $7,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals International: $6,250 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsFEED MORE INC: $79,500 · Food & NutritionAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $21,500 · Food & NutritionAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $11,000 · HealthPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $7,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $6,000 · HealthGoochlandCares: $6,000 · HealthThe Virginia Home: $5,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthOURAY ICE PARK INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE RISE: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,846,000Education$240,500Human Services$116,500Animals$107,000Food & Nutrition$101,000Health$72,000Recreation & Sports$67,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $138,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $79,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $79,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOURAY ICE PARK INC: $65,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $59,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $36,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVANCY INC: $29,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $27,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $21,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GRAND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $14,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $11,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRICO CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $8,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGoochlandCares: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHORN: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOCHLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE - RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRAYDEN COLE HINCK FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNORS HEROES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Carmax FoundationHerndon FoundationRobins FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…McKesson Foundation I…Reco FoundationLuck Companies Founda…Townebank FoundationWilliams Mullen Found…
The Community Foundation IncVA37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Madmone Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madmone Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home