About us
A foundation built around love, light and healing
Madrid Foundation Inc strengthens communities through civil rights advocacy, education, environmental stewardship and agricultural opportunity.
Madrid Foundation Inc was formed around a simple conviction: communities already hold the answers to their own challenges, and what they most often lack is sustained support.
Our work spans civil rights advocacy, community seminars, fundraising for local causes, community facilities, environmental stewardship and agriculture. In every program we begin the same way — by listening to the people closest to the need, then funding what they tell us will make the difference.
We measure the foundation by what changes in people's lives: a family with steady food, a young person who finishes a course, a neighbourhood that keeps its river clean, a person who understands and can claim their rights.
What guides us
Listen first
Every program begins with the people who live with the problem every day, not with a plan written elsewhere.
Stay long enough
Short interventions rarely hold. We commit to communities across seasons, not single events.
Account for everything
Every donation is recorded the moment it succeeds, and program spending is reported to supporters.
Dignity always
People are partners in this work, never case studies. Stories are shared only with consent.
Leadership
Sherwin Sterling
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sherwin Sterling founded Madrid Foundation Inc in 2025 and leads its programmes across civil rights advocacy, education, community facilities, environmental stewardship and agriculture.
Registration & governance
- Legal name:
- MADRID FOUNDATION INC (Domestic Nonprofit Corporation)
- Georgia registration number:
- 25154284
- Control number:
- 25219768
- Incorporated:
- November 6, 2025 in Georgia, USA; certificate issued November 13, 2025 by the Georgia Secretary of State.
- Registered address:
- 1751 McCalla Rd SE, Conyers, GA 30013, USA
- Contact:
- (770) 852-5355 · inquiry@madridfoundationinc.org
Federal tax-exempt determination is in progress. Tax-deductible acknowledgements will be issued once IRS 501(c)(3) status is confirmed; until then every gift is receipted with our Georgia registration details.
How we are funded
Madrid Foundation Inc is funded entirely by voluntary support: one-off donations, monthly giving from individuals, sponsorship of specific programme activities, and admission to our seminars and annual gala.
Every payment is recorded the moment it succeeds and credited to the programme the giver chose. Sponsorship and ticket income is held against the programme it names.