· Private foundation
The Madden Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $436k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $218,625 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $117,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CAUSES INC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA | $25,000 |
| KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS | $10,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST | $10,000 |
| ROWAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| THE SAYRE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $407k · revenue +17%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +24%- SSSAYRE SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CFCHARITIES FOR KYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- KFK Fundone grant, 2021 · $80k
- CICambridge in Americaone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Kentucky country day school challenges its students to achieve their highest level of academic excellence and to grow into honorable men and women of confidence and integrity. we inspire personal growth through a diverse community and…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Provide a distinctly christian education in the classical tradition which equips students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and beautiful and thus prepares them to live purposefully and intelligently in service of god…
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 34 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 THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CAUSES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS MUSEUM & DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Misdee Wrigley and James Mather Miller Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Madden Foundation 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.
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.