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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.

Revenue FY2025
$525k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$12M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc does

Mission

To administer investments and receive support for the exclusive benefit of the madison museum of contemporary art, inc.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation was established to administer investments and to receive support in the form of gifts, grants, and bequests which exclusively benefit the madison museum of contemporary art, inc.

    $938,138 spentof which $938,138 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $938,138.

02The 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

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 $7.8M to $9.7M (+24%).

$6.1M
$6.3M
$6.0M
$7.8M
$9.7M
$9.9M
$9.6M
$10M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 · 7,828 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

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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed8887109999
Joined·+0+0+3+3+1+1+6+2
No longer listed·00402162
03Who 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

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Wisconsin out of state home

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

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

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

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC

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In Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & 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 policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited 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

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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 3 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