New York · Private foundation
Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $975k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $955k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $725k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust | $250,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Childrens Arts Guild | $240,000 | 5 | 41% |
| Reading Team Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Everybody Matters Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Neighborhood Gardens Trust | $215,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Healthy Humor Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance | $200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Literacy Lab | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mighty Writers | $190,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Humanities Council of Washington DC · United Way of the National Capital Area · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Harman Family Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company
How this is measured
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About Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation
- How much does Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation give?
- Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,081,498 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust ($250k), Childrens Arts Guild ($240k), Reading Team Inc ($220k).
- Does Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation based?
- Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation is based in NY.
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