Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,915,099 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,593,774). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation is committed to supporting the education of every child by raising private funds, awarding grants, developing community partnerships, and advocating for madison's public schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants, scholarships, and fiscal agent services - supports the district's schools, programs, projects, and students.
$594,240 spentof which $501,922 as grants44% of program spendingCommunity partnerships - supports the identification and development of partnerships between schools in the district with local businesses and other organizations. The foundation manages three programs in this area: the adopt-a-school program, schools make madison summit, and the teacher support network.
$589,089 spentof which $407,256 as grants44% of program spendingAdvocates - provides awareness and campaigning efforts to the district.
$90,697 spent7% of program spendingProject alumni - supports the connecting of alumni with fellow alumni, faculty, students, and staff in order to create a community that facilitates the delivery of a wide array of resources: intellectual, academic, career, collegiate, networking, and philanthropic.
$62,034 spent5% of program spendingAny given child - supports the partnerships of the district, overture center for the arts, and the city of madison that is committed to ensuring students have a quality, well-rounded education that provides access to the arts.
$1,538 spentof which $1,538 as grants0% of program spendingCommunity schools - supports the district's programs, creating a welcoming and inclusive place that builds on the assets of the community to help serve the identified needs of the students, families and community through well integrated and coordinated, strategic partnerships. Community schools offer a suite of interconnected services that may include tutoring, early childhood learning support, mentoring, mental health services, food access, and recreation and arts activities.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,337,598.
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.
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 $11M to $15M (+35%).
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: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $162k → $997k.
12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Dane County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 23% · 2019 78% · 2020 57% · 2021 29% · 2022 61% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
61% of MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 1 related entity
- Schools Make Madison Advocates Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
- MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,915,099 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,593,774). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,915,099 in grants to MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,593,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 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