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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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$657kAnimals$359kHealth$261kEducation$245kReligion$186kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$57kYouth Development$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $351k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $1k → 11%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%SOCIAL SERVICE AUXILIARY: $10k → 10%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%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
WA
NY
PA
CA
UT
KY
MD
DC
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$963k · 21 repeat orgs$837k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
40

Total granted

$963k
$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PF
    PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +174%
  • IA
    INNER-CITY ARTS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $60k · revenue +30%
  • TC
    THE CDM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON - CARNEGIE OBSE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -66%
  • M
    MuseIque
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -20%
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
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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4
The California Channel

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…

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5
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
6
University of Southern California

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…

Education
7
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
8
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
9
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All for Kids Organization; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 67 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MuseIque: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMuseIqueGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF ARTORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTINNER-CITY ARTS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSPacific Symphony: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePacific SymphonyNational Gallery of Art: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $36,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUMINTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM F…+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS: $160,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE …CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON - CARNEGIE OBSE: $100,000 · OtherCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHI…HOAG HOSPITAL NEWPORT BEACH: $58,000 · OtherHOAG HOSPITAL NEWPORT BEACHBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $25,000 · OtherCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $22,000 · Other+29 more: $142,350 · Other+29 morePAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $325,000 · AnimalsPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RES…FARMHOUSE RESCUE: $30,000 · AnimalsFARMHOUSE RESCUE+1 more: $4,000 · AnimalsHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $158,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPI…HELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,000 · HealthHELPHOPELI…AHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $7,000 · HealthWALKING STRONG INC: $6,500 · Health+4 more: $4,500 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION: $160,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…Pasadena City College Foundation: $10,000 · EducationPasadena C…Newport Coast Elementary School Foundation: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CDM FOUNDATION: $38,500 · PhilanthropyALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL SERVICE AUXILIARY: $10,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $10,000 · Human ServicesCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$541,000Other$507,850Animals$359,000Health$186,000Education$182,500Philanthropy$138,500Human Services$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $325,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $158,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMuseIque: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPacific Symphony: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CDM FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $36,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRINTING MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBACKHAUSDANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL SERVICE AUXILIARY: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Coast Elementary School Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWALKING STRONG INC: $6,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OASIS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVIL PUPS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

California Community …Orange County Communi…Pasadena Community Fo…The Ahmanson Foundati…Farmers & Merchants B…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Edwards Lifesciences …Conrad N Hilton Found…Jerry & Terri Kohl Fa…Klm FoundationCroul Family Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA22.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Madison Foundation for Families Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Madison Foundation for Families Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Madison Foundation for Families Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Madison Foundation for Families Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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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