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Madrono Foundation

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MCivil Rights$925kHealth$595kHuman Services$405kCrime & Legal$369kHousing & Shelter$345kFood & Nutrition$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $900k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CLIMATE CENTER$50,000
LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT$50,000
THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST$50,000
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE$50,000
MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$50,000
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS$50,000
HARVEST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY$50,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$50,000
GREEN LATINOS$50,000
SOLID GROUND$50,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTER FOR REFUGEE SERVICES$50,000
FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS$50,000
UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT$50,000
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SOLID GROUND: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM: $10k → 12%UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT: $50k → 13%CENTER FOR REFUGEE SERVICES: $50k → 16%BORDER ANGELS: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM: $10k → 12%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $35k → 13%COMMUNITY AGAIN SEXUAL HARM: $5k → 12%UPTOGETHER: $50k → 10%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $125k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 19 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
33

Total granted

$2.6M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther

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

  • CS
    CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB
    3× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +77%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +14%
  • FA
    Front and Centered
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BU
    BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -49%
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +37%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
6
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

—
7
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

—
9
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
12
Californians Against Waste Foundation

Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Lgbtq+ Community CentersSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Native Hawaiian Community D…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Public University Foundatio…Independent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPublic Library SupportLand Conservation Organizat…United Way FederationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,502

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
29/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $125,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INCNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATIONCASA MARIANELLA INC — $110,000 · OtherCO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM COALITION — $100,000 · Otherrefugee & immigrant ctr for educ & legal svcs — $100,000 · OtherACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $100,000 · OtherEL BUEN SAMARITANO INC — $81,550 · OtherGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC — $80,000 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found — $125,000 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washing…ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $125,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC18 Reasons — $200,000 · Other18 ReasonsROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER — $125,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTERMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $100,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $180,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC+18 more — $570,000 · Other+18 moreWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVAT…Front and Centered — $225,000 · EnvironmentFront and CenteredTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SOCIETY IN…CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY — $110,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ENVIRONME…Native American Land Conservancy — $50,000 · EnvironmentHill Country Alliance — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentTILTH ALLIANCE — $50,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $50,000 · EnvironmentGreenLatinos — $50,000 · Environment+2 more — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $814,949 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR GREA…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $62,500 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WA…REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $275,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEAT…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DE…FII - NATIONAL — $50,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATI…Solid Ground — $50,000 · Human ServicesSolid Grou…BORDER ANGELS — $50,000 · Human ServicesBORDER ANG…Center for Refugee Services — $50,000 · Human ServicesCenter for…COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM — $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $275,000 · HealthNATIONAL L…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $125,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $100,000 · HealthPlanned Pa…CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $50,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA…THE BAIL PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalLavender Rights Project — $100,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $88,660 · Crime & LegalSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $50,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $100,000 · EducationThe Climate Center — $100,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $62,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $15,000 · Education
Other$2,246,550Environment$1,135,000Philanthropy$1,052,449Human Services$585,000Health$550,000Crime & Legal$338,660Education$302,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION — $814,949 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $275,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $275,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFront and Centered — $225,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budget18 Reasons — $200,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $180,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $125,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found — $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $125,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC — $110,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY — $110,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Climate Center — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLavender Rights Project — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $88,660 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC — $80,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $62,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $62,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFundamental Needs Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNative American Land Conservancy — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHill Country Alliance — $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBORDER ANGELS — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCenter for Refugee Services — $50,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM — $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincPatagoniaorgTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Seattle FoundationTides CenterSilicon Valley Commun…The California Endowm…Resources Legacy FundUnited States Energy …The Denver FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…
ImpactassetsincMD27× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Resources Legacy Fund · United States Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The James Irvine 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 Madrono 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Madrono Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Madrono Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines