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· Private foundation

The Madigan Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$125kFood & Nutrition$119kHousing & Shelter$106kHealth$47kHuman Services$40kPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$5kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER$20,000
NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC$20,000
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER$14,000
LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY$10,000
COREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION$10,000
GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC$5,000
AYER - SHIRLEY HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
MAYNARD FOOD PANTRY$2,500
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,500
TOWN OF READING$2,500
THE BROMFIELD SCHOOL$2,500
HOUSE OF HOPE CDC$2,500
SOPHIE'S HOPE FOUNDATION$2,000
NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,500
LUNENBURG HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 7%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $1k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $1k → 16%WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $2k → 11%WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $1k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $1k → 11%WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $1k → 11%JEREMIAH'S INN: $1k → 11%GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $2k → 11%GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMUNITY: $1k → 11%GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $1k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $5k → 11%NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $1k → 11%HUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 → 8%GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $1k → 11%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

NH
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
DE
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 51 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
44

Total granted

$410k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +275%
  • LF
    LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP
    4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • DI
    DANA-FARBER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • SB
    ST BENEDICT ABBEY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • NP
    NATIVITY PREPATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Gavin Foundation Inc

Gavin foundation provides substance abuse education, counseling, housing and support services for individuals located in the south boston area of massachusetts and surrounding communities.

Philanthropy
6
Veterans Inc

Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…

Community Improvement
7
Hope Strengthens Foundation

Hope Strengthens Foundation provides targeted financial support to patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses, disabilities, and traumatic injuries.

Animals
8
Care Dimensions Inc

Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.

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9
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
10
Cancer Services of Gaston Cty Inc

The mission of cancer services of gaston county, inc. is to encourage prevention and early detection of cancer through education and accessible cancer screening services, to render services and rehabilitation to cancer patients; to be a…

Health
11
Gastric Cancer Foundation

The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…

Health
12
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dan Kelly Foundation Inc. 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

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 120 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
27/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $34,000 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCAYER-SHIRLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $21,500 · OtherAYER-SHIRLEY HIGH SCHOOLCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATIONTHE BROMFIELD SCHOOL (JOHN C MADIGAN JR MEM SCHOLARSHIP): $10,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $8,000 · Other+73 more: $114,627 · Other+73 moreNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INCLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INCTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $23,100 · Human ServicesTommy's Place Foundation IncGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $7,000 · Human Services+6 more: $12,049 · Human Services+6 moreTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $25,750 · EducationTRUSTEES OF LA…CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationCARDIGAN MOUNT…PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $9,750 · EducationPROVIDENCE COL…Ayer Shirley Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationAyer Shirley E…Up With Books Inc: $5,000 · EducationUp With Books …+3 more: $2,850 · EducationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $12,000 · HealthSOPHIE'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthJOURNEY FORWARD INC: $1,000 · Health+9 more: $2,510 · HealthTHE JOSEPH AND LESLIE CARR FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionLUNENBURG COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionWachusett Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 · Food & NutritionEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $250 · Food & NutritionMONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I: $3,000 · Public BenefitTrooper Tamar Bucci Memorial Fund Inc: $511 · Public BenefitCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $500 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropySHIRLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGROTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDOWMENT TRUST: $750 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$208,127Human Services$187,149Education$60,350Health$17,510Food & Nutrition$5,250Public Benefit$4,011Philanthropy$3,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $95,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $34,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $25,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $23,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $9,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGINNY'S HELPING HAND INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMW FUND INC: $6,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAyer Shirley Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUp With Books Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOSEPH AND LESLIE CARR FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR FATHERS TABLE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $2,299 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIE'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL MA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNENBURG COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWachusett Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIRLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAYER SHIRLEY LUNENBURG YOUTH FOOTBALL AND CHEER IN: $750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGROTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ENDOWMENT TRUST: $750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDAN KELLY FOUNDATION INC: $602 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrooper Tamar Bucci Memorial Fund Inc: $511 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAYNARD FOOTBALL INC: $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON: $305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSNOLD INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
  • Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MW FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Ayer Shirley Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
  • Who funds Up With Books Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSEPH AND LESLIE CARR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I ↗
  • Who funds OUR FATHERS TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON 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.

Arbella Insurance Fou…Community Foundation …Citizens Charitable F…United Way of North C…Eastern Bank Foundati…Main Street Group Fou…Boston Foundation IncGivenGain Foundation …Greater Worcester Com…Worcester County Food…Greater Lowell Commun…Amica Companies Found…
Arbella Insurance FoundationMA33.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Citizens Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Worcester County Food Bank Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Amica Companies 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 The Madigan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Madigan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Journey Forward Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I: 17% of income from government
  • North Star Family Services Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Girls On the Run Greater Boston: 4% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 120 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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