· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HIGHLANDS MUSEUM & DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Madden Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Madden Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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