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At Aldo Leopold Nature Center, the Wonder Bugs preschool program blends outdoor adventure with learning and school readiness.

MCF is here to help you do your charitable giving, your way. You can give to an existing fund, start your own fund, or leave a gift in your will or estate plan.

Here’s more about your giving options:

Give to an Existing Fund

Community Impact

The Community Impact Fund pools gifts together for greater impact in the Madison area. It is the source of MCF’s grantmaking and gives MCF maximum flexibility to respond to the community’s needs and opportunities today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

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Field of Interest

These funds support grantmaking in one MCF’s seven focus areas: Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Community Development, Environment, Elderly, Learning and Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Agency Endowments

These funds support specific nonprofits, ensuring regular, sustained support to those organizations.

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Giving Partners

A Fund for Women: This fund supports economic empowerment for women and girls in Dane County.

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Regional Partner Funds: These funds allow donors to support six regional partner communities outside Madison. Click to learn more about our partners in Columbus, Lodi, Middleton, Monona, Portage and Rio.

Scholarships

Madison Community Foundation administers approximately 90 scholarship funds. The more than $220,000 in annual scholarship grants awarded through these funds represents a tremendous financial resource to students throughout Dane County and beyond. 

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Find a Fund by Name

Search for any fund by keyword. Individuals, families, companies and organizations have established funds at MCF to benefit specific causes and organizations close to home or far away. Honor them with a gift to their fund.

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Start a New Fund

MCF offers a variety of funds to meet your short- and long-term charitable giving goals.

Learn more about starting a new fund

Leave a Gift in Your Will or Estate Plan

Donors who name Madison Community Foundation as a beneficiary in their wills and estate plans become members of MCF’s Legacy Society and are recognized as special partners in philanthropy and planned giving. Legacy donors may also choose to remain anonymous.

Leave a legacy gift

I think anyone who decides to invest in Madison Community Foundation should know that those of us who are doing it now do it because we have absolute confidence in the people who will be making decisions that our wishes will be carried out.”

– Carol Toussaint, donor, Legacy Society member

In the past 25 years, together with donors, MCF has given $200 million in gifts to nonprofits, building and strengthening our most important community assets.

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