· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 FEDERATION & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH | $1,500 |
| COLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF ARIZONA | $1,500 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHOENIX | $1,250 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| WNC NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds 4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds San Rafael Public Education Foundation DBA HEADSUP ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mars Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mars Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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