Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,408,513 to it, the largest being LAU & BEA CHRISTENSEN CHARITABLE FOUNDAT ($18,857,160). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year. MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $305M
Hosts funds for others
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$108M
Recipients
520
Contributions on record
$67M
Donors on record
81
Payments out are 1.61x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $294M to $348M (+18%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Robert Sorge
President & CEO
Board chair
Christine Barden
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $670k → $599k.
20 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Everything's Possible Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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.
Where its funders are
97% of MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- McF Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Colony Brands Foundation · exempt
- Evjue Foundation · exempt
- Everything's Possible Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: 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 MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,408,513 to it, the largest being LAU & BEA CHRISTENSEN CHARITABLE FOUNDAT ($18,857,160). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year. MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $47,408,513 in grants to MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- LAU & BEA CHRISTENSEN CHARITABLE FOUNDAT is the largest funder on record, with $18,857,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 80 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