Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC
DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,094 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($611,277). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $23M
What District Council of Madison Inc does
Mission
The District Council of Madison Inc., society of st. Vincent de paul is a catholic lay organization in which members join together in friendship to grow spiritually by providing person-to-person services to our neighbors in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our seven dane county thrift stores, together with the central processing center that distributes goods to them, provide the largest share of funding for our mission of helping neighbors in need. These funds are the net revenue produced from our stores' sales of donated, gently used goods including clothing, shoes, furniture, housewares, books and more. These goods are received at each store, through home pick-up by our trucking fleet, and collection at several local drop box sites. Our stores also provide direct charity to local people in need through a voucher system; clients who have been interviewed by staff, members or volunteers are able to visit our stores and obtain clothing, furniture, bedding and housewares through the use of vouchers. In this 2024/25 fiscal year, our seven stores provided over $1.7 millon in net revenue to fund our mission of charitable aid. Those stores also gave to people in need -- directly out of store inventory -- clothing providing valued at $522,470, furniture valued at $62,439, new mattresses and portable cribs costing $124,538.
$7,366,553 spent$14,529,145 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe center for vincentian charity in madison houses our administrative offices and our two largest programs, the food pantry and charitable pharmacy. The center's staff also arranges for home visits by our members throughout the county to help determine the needs of households requesting assistance and to bring the society's resources to bear on the poverty we encounter. During this 2024/25 fiscal year, our center's food pantry provided local households with food valued at $4,007,996. During this year, our service center staff and volunteers assisted dane county households with 112,841 people including 42,490 children in 46,215 instances. The charitable pharmacy dispensed medication valued at $1,034,517.we also purchased diapers costing $143,313 and distributed to those in need while visiting the food pantry.
$2,158,531 spent21% of program spendingAdditional programs of assistance include utility assistance in partnership with madison gas & electric, and our seton program. Through the program with mg&e, we cover the cost of overdue utilities for households facing shut-offs, during this 2024/25 fiscal year valued at $73,866. The seton program, gives wraparound case management support to newly housed families which had been homeless, and provides financial assistance to cover expenses outside their budgets. Because these families pay more than half their income in rent, they struggle to meet other needs like car repairs, education and childcare, or lost wages from sick time uncovered by paid time off. This program provided direct assistance of $34,159 to 14 families. We also gave over $68,000 in direct assistance for various miscellenous, unforeseen and urget needs under the sister rosalie assistance program.
$450,545 spent4% of program spendingVinny's lockers and other programming.
$496,407 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,472,036.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $24M to $27M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Julie Bennett
CEO & executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $55k → $451k.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 30% · 2020 46% · 2021 47% · 2022 30% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $577k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC?
- DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,094 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($611,277). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,986,094 in grants to DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $611,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing