· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CORNERSTONE OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| KAUAI ANIMAL EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JE | $10,000 |
| SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC | $8,207 |
| WISH FOR OUR HEROES INC | $5,075 |
| LIFECAMP USA INC | $5,000 |
| OAKDALE PARK CHURCH | $5,000 |
| A DOLL LIKE ME INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HAHEAT ATHLETICS INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -86%
- CHCHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mars Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mars Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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