Where to Give

Donors provide unrestricted support that gives MCF the flexibility to pursue the community foundation’s as well as the broader community’s greatest opportunities to make a difference.

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The Community Impact Fund is at the heart of MCF’s mission to enhance the common good through philanthropy. The fund invests in a broad array of agencies in Dane County, and donors support grantmaking that positively impacts lives and our community for the long term. 

Program, capital and endowment grants are made in five focus areas: arts and culture, learning, community development, the environment, and nonprofit capacity building.

Community Impact grants help nonprofits create and expand programs; construct, purchase and renovate facilities; fund land acquisitions; buy equipment; and support long-term financial sustainability.

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Donors may also support a more specific or personal interest area by starting their own Field of Interest Fund.

These funds support a variety of nonprofits, ensuring regular, sustained support to those organizations.

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Donors who want to support communities—where they live, work and play, or where they grew up—may give to one of MCF's six regional partner communities outside Madison. Learn more about our partners in Columbus, Lodi, Middleton, Monona, Portage and Rio.

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. 

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.