New York · Private foundation
Mars Hq Regional Foundation
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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 105
- Grants FY2024
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 112
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $48M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Mars Hq Regional Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 102 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $1.9M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 108 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $1.3M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $1,700,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pretend City the Children's Museum of Orange County | $445,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch | $153,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $153,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Capital Hospice | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Student Conservation Association Inc | $123,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts | $118,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Boys and Girls Club of Fauquier Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Va Foundation for Independent Colleges | $103,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Washington National Opera | $103,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mars Hq Regional Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Ada L and Albert M Wibel Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Mars Hq Regional Foundation
- How much does Mars Hq Regional Foundation give?
- Mars Hq Regional Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $1,723,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 112 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Mars Hq Regional Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Mars Hq Regional Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($1.7M), Pretend City the Children's Museum of Orange County ($445k), The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch ($153k).
- Does Mars Hq Regional Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mars Hq Regional Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mars Hq Regional Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
- Where is Mars Hq Regional Foundation based?
- Mars Hq Regional Foundation is based in NY.
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