· Private foundation
The Mario Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH | $220,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SUBMARINE MUSEUM | $175,000 |
| NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $151,120 |
| OPEN TABLE MINISTRY | $150,000 |
| CRISTO REY NETWORK | $150,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY PEDIATRICS | $98,000 |
| OPEN TABLE MINISTRY | $85,000 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $77,500 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUC | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY & SCHOLARSHIP | $50,000 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $27,404 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +211%
Open Table Ministry Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $785k · revenue +444% · 34% of their budget- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $640k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- RBRUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCESone grant, 2022 · $500k
- RSRUTGERS SCHOOL OF PHARMACYone grant, 2020 · $251k
- TJTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palo Alto Historical 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Open Table Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NHA PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO JUNIOR MUSEUM & ZOO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 The Mario Family 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.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.