· Private foundation
Mars Snacking Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $925k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $1,740,474 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $1,030,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $413,149 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $400,000 |
| GIVE2ASIA | $333,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC | $200,000 |
| GIVE2ASIA | $167,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $112,725 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $105,000 |
| AMERICAN DENTAL HYGIENISTS ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE F | $100,000 |
| ROLE MODEL MOVEMENT INC NFP | $100,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $90,300 |
| CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 53% of Mars Snacking Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PUPRATHAM USA3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +25%- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- KBKing Baudouin Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- STSave the Children Federation, Incone grant, 2021 · $1.2M
- GGive2Asiaone grant, 2021 · $956k
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
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To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 87 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mars Snacking Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mars Snacking Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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