· Private foundation
The Jonathan Madding 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.
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 $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| HEARTS TOUCHING HEARTS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH | $20,338 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION GRADE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VISITATION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES & ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,000 |
| IC DAYBREAK OF ELMHURST | $5,000 |
| FRANCISIAN MISSION OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEALS DUPAGE AND THE FOX VALLEY REGION | $3,500 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GRACE METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HTHEARTS TOUCHING HEARTSFOUNDATIONINC5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +32%
- TTTree Town Cooperative Nursery5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +76%
- SGSt Gerard Campus3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- FMFRANCISCAN MISSION OUTREACHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RHROSARY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SSST SYMPHOROSA CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Children's services
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The birth center dba lifecycle wellness and birth center is an independent non-profit organization and free-standing, out-of-hospital birth center. our team of midwives and nurse-practitioners provide empowering gynecology and…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Child day care services
Educational child care center (ec3) provides developmentally appropriate child care in a nurturing environment that promotes growth of the whole child while responding to the needs of the family.
St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
Operation of a daycare program for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts Touching Heartsfoundationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 51 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 HEARTS TOUCHING HEARTSFOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Tree Town Cooperative Nursery ↗
- Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
- Who funds BUTTONS & BOWS NURSERY SCHOOL INC % JAMI SHARKO ↗
- Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MACON RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MACON COUNTY FAIR ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
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: Andreas Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Jonathan Madding 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.
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.