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The Mars Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREE OF LIFE | $12,750 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES OF ORANGE CTY | $3,500 |
| FUENTE LATINA | $3,000 |
| BELOVED ASHVILLE | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND | $2,000 |
| YOUTH IN ARTS | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION KEHILLAH | $1,800 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF ARIZONA | $1,500 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENIX | $1,250 |
| MAYO CLINIC OF ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY CRAFT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those 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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FLFuente Latina Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +204%
- YIYouth in Arts4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +65%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +52%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAELone grant, 2023 · $3k
- JJJDC - JOINT DISTRIBUTION CENTERone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is 4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 68 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 Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Youth in Arts ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds 4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds San Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Bothin Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community 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 The Mars Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise 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.
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