Where to Give

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 greatest assets and opportunities today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. The fund supports grantmaking in MCF’s five focus areas: Arts & Culture, Community Development, Environment, Learning and Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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This type of giving allows donors to identify and support an area of interest that is broader in scope than MCF's Community Impact grantmaking. Field of Interest fund grantmaking includes social services, the elderly, children and youth, community and neighborhood development, and women and girls. Donors may also support a more specific focus area by starting their own Field of Interest Fund.

Give Now to a Field of Interest

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

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

Give Now to a Fund for Women

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.

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. 

Give Now to a Scholarship Fund

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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