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MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,334,044 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,473,092). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.3M
Revenue FY2025
37
Funders on record
$3.3M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
27/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Against its field

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 91 ($2.1M) Expenses 96 ($2.8M) Net assets 96 ($16M)2019 Revenue 113 ($2.6M) Expenses 110 ($3.2M) Net assets 93 ($16M)2020 Revenue 97 ($2.2M) Expenses 105 ($3.0M) Net assets 88 ($15M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.7M) Expenses 92 ($2.7M) Net assets 83 ($14M)2022 Revenue 101 ($2.3M) Expenses 104 ($3.0M) Net assets 73 ($12M)2023 Revenue 86 ($2.0M) Expenses 99 ($2.9M) Net assets 64 ($11M)2024 Revenue 89 ($2.0M) Expenses 105 ($3.0M) Net assets 55 ($9.4M)2025 Revenue 231 ($5.3M) Expenses 130 ($3.8M) Net assets 59 ($10M)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (130)Net assets (59)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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 34% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$621k
17
$710k
18
$600k
19
$848k
20
$934k
21
$693k
22
$895k
23
$1.0M
24
$1.5M
25
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $77k → $363k.

5 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% 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: $4.4M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC raised.

From the IRS filings of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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.

How concentrated its funding is

MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% 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 INC.

44%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 39% · 2019 58% · 2020 45% · 2021 72% · 2022 60% · 2023 69%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.

How long its funders stay

52% of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states.

WI
NY
PA
CA
TX

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. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

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 37 funders put you typical 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.

Government funding MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.

Federal$65k
grants $65kcontracts $0
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21
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$65k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 29%Fundraising 15%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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 INC?
MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,334,044 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,473,092). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% 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 INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,334,044 in grants to MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC?
MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,473,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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 37funders 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