· Private foundation
The Madison Foundation for Families Inc
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 $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS | $101,000 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE | $100,000 |
| BACKHAUSDANCE | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS | $7,000 |
| ALWAYS SERVING | $6,000 |
| THE CDM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UNCONDITIONAL RESCUE | $4,000 |
| CURE DUCHENNE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $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 (FY17–20, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- PFPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE4× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +174%
- IAINNER-CITY ARTS2× · 2018–2019 · $60k · revenue +30%
- TCTHE CDM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +11%
Funded once
GAGE ACADEMY OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +51%- FOFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -66%
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All for Kids Organization and the most unlike its peers is Farmhouse Rescue. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 67 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 PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAGE ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE CDM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SERVICE AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds BACKHAUSDANCE ↗
- Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds Newport Coast Elementary School Foundation ↗
- Who funds AHEAD WITH HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planes of Fame Air Museum ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation · Klm Foundation · Croul Family 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 Madison Foundation for Families 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.
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