California · Nonprofit
MADISON MEDIA FUND
MADISON MEDIA FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,500 to it, the largest being THOMAS D KLINGENSTEIN FUND ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $536k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $298k
- Net assets
- $148k
What Madison Media Fund does
Mission
Curating films that respect timeless values and avoid divisive ideologies. While our original work explores stories that unite within issues that divide, our platform connects audiences with content that uplifts and inspires without agenda.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Curating films that respect timeless values and avoid divisive ideologies. While our original work explores stories that unite within issues that divide, our platform connects audiences with content that uplifts and inspires without agenda.
$237,318 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $237,318.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MADISON MEDIA FUND’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
MADISON MEDIA FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
MADISON MEDIA FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MADISON MEDIA FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MADISON MEDIA FUND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADISON MEDIA FUND: 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 MEDIA FUND?
- MADISON MEDIA FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,500 to it, the largest being THOMAS D KLINGENSTEIN FUND ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MADISON MEDIA FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $297,500 in grants to MADISON MEDIA FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of MADISON MEDIA FUND?
- THOMAS D KLINGENSTEIN FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADISON MEDIA FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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