Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION
FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,014 to it, the largest being MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ($192,547). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Friends of Madison School-Community Recreation does
Mission
Friends of Madison School & Community Recreation (MSCR) is a non-profit organization that values Madison School & Community Recreation (MSCR) as a vital community resource. Friends support public recreation as an approach to enrich the lives of individuals and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Funded 46 grants to MSCR supporting youth & adult focused programs and services, including expanding afterschool sports, clubs and affinity groups, arts programming and equipment, conducting family engagement events, stocking the Meadowood Food Pantry, contribution to Friends of MSCR Endowment held at the Madison Community Foundation and MSCR staff development.
$8,638 spentof which $56,281 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,638.
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 2021 to 2022, from $123k to $61k (−51%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $64k → $65k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION
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.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION?
- FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,014 to it, the largest being MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ($192,547). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $301,014 in grants to FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION?
- MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION 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.
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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 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing