How much did Mars Wrigley Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of Mars Wrigley Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

dentalchicagohealthier smilesoral health

2023

globalchicagohealthier smilescareoral healthhealth education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k3 grants · $76k
$50k–250k7 grants · $811k
$250k+6 grants · $2.9M

$132,204

Median grant

States reached

$64M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$1,000,000
PRATHAM USA$510,233
MYRIAD COMMUNITY$430,000
GIVE2ASIA$388,500
GIVE2ASIA$333,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$200,000
MYRIAD USA INC$146,200
HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH$132,204
MYRIAD USA INC$112,725
ROLE MODEL MOVEMENT INC NFP$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER$70,000
CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION$50,000
MYRIAD USA INC$26,250
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$25M · 14 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$25M

$1.2M

Still filing today

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $712k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

PhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +21%
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PRATHAM USA
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
MYRIAD USA INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $964k · revenue +856%

Funded once

KB
KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES INC
one grant, 2022 · $1.2M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Global Ties Us

To build trust and advance peace and prosperity though international exchange.

International

Chicagoland Associated General

To deliver exceptional value to our members through industry leadership, superior services, and innovative programs.

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Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Chicago Foundation for Women

Chicago foundation for women (cfw) invests in women and girls as catalysts, building strong communities for all. the foundation envisions a world in which all women, girls, trans and gender non binary individuals have the opportunity to…

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Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

UChicago Research International

To engage in scientific research and educational activities throughout the world on behalf of and in conjunction with the university of chicago.

Health

The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation mobilizes chicago's legal community to improve access to justice.

Education

Global Greengrants Fund

Mobilize resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet.

Environment

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

United States Telecom Association

Ustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.

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Center for American Progress Action Fund

To shape the national policy debate and transform progressive concepts into policy.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,137,994International$7,335,910Philanthropy$3,077,688Community Improvement$600,000Health$481,242Youth Development$300,000Arts & Culture$210,000Human Services$32,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Mars Wrigley Foundation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +71% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260784174 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHICAGO DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mars Wrigley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mars Wrigley Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Mars Wrigley Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mars Wrigley Foundation?

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Mars Wrigley Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mars Wrigley Foundation?

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