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Mary Bartsas Charitable 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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$100kEducation$51kInternational$21kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$6kReligion$2kFood & Nutrition$900Arts & Culture$525Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Philoptochos Social Services$30,000
White Pine High School$24,000
SafeNest$10,000
Jeremiah Program$5,000
Light the World Giving Machine$5,000
The Shade Tree$1,011
Make A Wish$100
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$100
Alzheimer's Association$100
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $50 → 20%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $20 → 20%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $500 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $325 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $250 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $250 → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $150 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
SD
NJ
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$155k · 31 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
27

Total granted

$155k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

35%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • LV
    LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +59%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +18%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $723 · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • SL
    StJohn's Ladies Philoptochos Societ
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • UF
    UMC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -26%
  • EL
    Eureka Lodge #16 F&AM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k

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.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
10
National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

Health
11
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
12
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Pregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…Child and Family ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community CentersCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistancePublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 55 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number35%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr7%24%35–55yr8%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value35%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%53%10–20yr14%1%20–35yr7%28%35–55yr8%18%55yr+

The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
20%
2,501/12,350

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philoptochos Social Services — $78,050 · OtherPhiloptochos Social ServicesWhite Pine High School — $40,000 · OtherWhite Pine High SchoolStJohn's Ladies Philoptochos Societ — $15,000 · OtherStJohn's Ladies Philoptochos SocietSafeNest — $10,100 · OtherSafeNestElko Lodge 15 Scholarship — $10,000 · OtherElko Lodge 15 Scholarship+40 more — $27,195 · Other+40 moreUMC FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $723 · Health+6 more — $533 · HealthLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $1,475 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $70 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $1,250 · EducationTHREE SQUARE — $875 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $25 · Food & NutritionTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $70 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $25 · AnimalsENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $70 · Environment
Other$180,345Health$8,756Human Services$1,545Education$1,250Food & Nutrition$900Animals$95Environment$70

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUMC FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC — $4,214 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $1,475 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $723 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE NEVADA — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $163 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $75 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UMC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC
  • Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds GENDER JUSTICE NEVADA
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
  • Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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.

Nevada Community Foundation IncNV17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nevada Community Foundation Inc · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mondays Dark · Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mary Bartsas Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind2% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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