· Private foundation
The Nicholas and Marion Madonna Fdn
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $100,000 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,291 |
| PROVINCETOWN FINE ARTS WORK CENTER | $20,000 |
| FIGAWI CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC | $10,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND | $5,258 |
| BAMPA'S HOUSE | $5,165 |
| PATHWAYS VERMONT | $5,113 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,102 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,026 |
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 (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +8%
- OBOUTWARD BOUND INC3× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +66%
- PVPATHWAYS VERMONT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY REACH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue +7%
- PIPALAEMON INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -1%
- SBSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +273%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
The pacific institute creates and advances solutions to the worlds most pressing water challenges.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
To reinvent how public, private and social interests converge to address global challenges.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 FIGAWI CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds PALAEMON INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nicholas and Marion Madonna Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nicholas and Marion Madonna Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Palaemon Inc: 72% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc: 65% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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