Ohio · Nonprofit
THE MAD FACTORY
THE MAD FACTORY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,665 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MAD FACTORY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- United Way of Greater Lorain County Incshared funderslocal
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio match
- Young Audiences Incportfolio match
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.
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.
53% of THE MAD FACTORY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $58k → $86k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 THE MAD FACTORY’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
THE MAD FACTORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 89% · 2020 96% · 2021 82% · 2022 80% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of THE MAD FACTORY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Lorain County Incshared funderslocalOH · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Audiences Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Find Your Light Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheila Fortune Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter Glenville Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Audre Slater Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mardi Gras Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Institute of Contemporary Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dreamyard Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stockton Rush Bartol Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE MAD FACTORY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MAD FACTORY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MAD FACTORY?
- THE MAD FACTORY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,665 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MAD FACTORY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $569,665 in grants to THE MAD FACTORY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MAD FACTORY?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MAD FACTORY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 5funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing