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MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$525k
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$11k
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($717k) Expenses 100 ($506k) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 97 ($698k) Expenses 83 ($421k) Net assets 104 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 98 ($703k) Expenses 162 ($821k) Net assets 98 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 415 ($3.0M) Expenses 148 ($751k) Net assets 128 ($7.8M)2021 Revenue 52 ($374k) Expenses 124 ($629k) Net assets 158 ($9.7M)2022 Revenue 113 ($809k) Expenses 69 ($349k) Net assets 161 ($9.9M)2023 Revenue 24 ($168k) Expenses 153 ($773k) Net assets 158 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 149 ($1.1M) Expenses 193 ($977k) Net assets 168 ($10M)2025 Revenue 73 ($525k) Expenses 93 ($471k) Net assets 191 ($12M)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (93)Net assets (191)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

45% of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$210k
17
$277k
18
$118k
19
$2.2M
20
$256k
21
$459k
22
$605k
23
$92k
24
$54k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $75.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)90% 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 MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC’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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100%broadly stable.

“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

90% of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
21
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC?
MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,075 in grants to MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC?
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing