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Mars Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITYEZ INC | $75,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC | $59,260 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATER INC | $20,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN | $18,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MARCUS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS I | $12,500 |
| SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| KAUAI ANIMAL EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JE | $10,000 |
| BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC | $8,207 |
| WISH FOR OUR HEROES INC | $5,075 |
| A DOLL LIKE ME INC | $5,000 |
| OAKDALE PARK CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LIFECAMP USA INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OCOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $91k · revenue +80%
- COCornerstone of Grace3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +165%
- TPTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- MOMOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $35k
- CWCHILDRENS WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CHCHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides children in kenya that have been literally thrown away by their parents a new loving home-(not orphanage or boarding house) with a mother, father and siblings. they are also put into the top school in the city and given a first…
Providing Kenya's orphaned and vulnerable children with nutrition, education, and support. Kenya's Kidz is a proud supporter of Namayiana Children's Home, a children's home located in Olosho-Oibor, Kenya.
Thrive Kenya supports over 400 orphaned, abandoned, abused, neglected, and vulnerable impoverished children living in the rural area of Homa Bay County, Kenya and in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Our vision for every child is that they grow…
Providing schooling and basic needs to kids in Kenya.
Our sole purpose is to mobilize others to join us as we look after widows and orphans in their distress, as mandated in james 1:27. all of our projects are focused on providing life-giving hope and sustainable solutions to impoverished…
Hope Matters International supports a 24-bed hospital in a rural area of Kenya that is underserved by medical services. It has seen as many as 100 patients per day and has full medical and administrative staff, including emergency services.
To support an orphanage in kenya.
Prison ministry
To provide an exceptional, safe, caring enironment that creates an enthusiasm in children for lifelong learning.
A religious organization that shares the gift of transportation through vehicle maintenance, repair and donations.
To share the gospel and be the hands and feet of jesus christ by loving, encouraging and providing resources in kenya and uganda, east africa. we provide funds for food, education, transportation, medical care, job skills training, clean…
Christian missionary work in western Kenya
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITYEZ INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone of Grace ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HEAT ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds Kauai Animal Education Center ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISH FOR OUR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Ros Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mars Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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