Tennessee · Nonprofit
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,435,351 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,034,774). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Madonna Learning Center Incorporated does
Mission
Madonna learning center provides a faith based educational and social environment that empowers children and adults with special needs to reach their full potential while offering support to their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Madonna learning center, inc. Is a private independent school and adult training center for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The school provides an educational setting which includes programming and services similar to other schools. Ages range from 4-19 in the school program. Students advance to the adult program (monarch program) at age 18/19. This program includes 3 classes. Two classes focus on training for employment and independent living. The third class works with students full and part time on skills for sustaining employment, social skills and community outreach activities. Students in the school program receive language and occupational therapy services. Adults receive consultation therapy as needed for employment and independent living. All students and adults participate in specialty classes such as art, music, dance, physical education, and fitness.the goal of the school is to prepare our students to be as independent as possible when they enter their adult life. We are a single program with multiple educational experiences to meet our mission. We enroll approximately 90-95 students and adults annually.
$2,665,808 spent$1,615,875 earned by the program97% of program spendingMonarch ventures, llc doing business as bluff city toffee, owned and operated by madonna learning center, inc. Provides real-life experiences of managing and operating a business that produces the product it sells. Individuals with intellectual disabilities and special needs are empowered by managing the confectionery while experiencing vocational opportunities in today's world.
$94,223 spent$131,054 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,760,031.
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 $14M (+26%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jo-Ann Gilbert
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $134k → $1.6M.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 52% · 2022 34% · 2023 61% — 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
43% of MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
58% of MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Monarch Ventures LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED?
- MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,435,351 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,034,774). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,435,351 in grants to MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 38 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