GrantmakersNew York

Madruga Foundation Inc

Floral Park, NY · EIN 47-5501095. Reported 36 grants totalling $402,936 to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$7,022median reported grant
$402,936granted, 2020-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
37%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Madruga Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 37% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $7,022. Half of what it reported fell between $4,541 and $14,805; the smallest was $798 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
11 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Eugenio Maria De Hostos Community College FoundationBronx, NY$150,000442024
Ingersoll Resident Association IncBrooklyn, NY$63,737442024
Neeman Foundation USABoston, MA$25,000112024
Nycha Throggs Neck HousesBronx, NY$18,749212020
Bronx County Fairs and Exposition Association IncBronx, NY$13,897332024
Theresa's Heaven Family ShelterBronx, NY$13,858222023
Bronx Overall Economic Development CorporationBronx, NY$11,660222023
Juan Pablo Duarte FoundationNew York, NY$11,407112024
Inwood Community Services IncNew York, NY$10,419112020
Bringing the Peace IncorporatedBronx, NY$10,000112020
Latino Youth in Communication Arts IncFt Montgomery, NY$10,000112024
Bronx Spreading Love IncBronx, NY$9,946222023
Harlem Rbi IncorporatedNew York, NY$9,596112020
Bronx Community Charter SchoolBronx, NY$6,545112020
Bronxworks IncBronx, NY$5,427112024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$5,000112020
Northwell Health FoundationWestbury, NY$5,000112020
The Crenulated Company LtdBronx, NY$5,000112020
East Side House IncBronx, NY$4,763112024
Fordham Bedford Housing CorpBronx, NY$4,541112024
Special Adults of Concourse VillageBronx, NY$3,655112024
Northern Manhattan Improvement CorpNew York, NY$2,938112020
New York Shakespeare FestivalNew York, NY$1,000112024
Wholesome Family Network IncBrooklyn, NY$798112024

6 of 24 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202014$134,492$7,647
20211$50,000$50,000
20224$68,988$11,896
20235$38,519$4,160
202412$110,937$5,095

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$373K
Massachusetts
$25K
Maryland
$5K

Down to the city

Bronx, NY
$258K
Brooklyn, NY
$65K
New York, NY
$35K
Boston, MA
$25K
Ft Montgomery, NY
$10K
Baltimore, MD
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsThe New York Community Trust6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,022 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Madruga Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 15 Verbena Ave, Floral Park, NY, 11001.

EIN 47-5501095 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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