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Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn at a glance

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Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$133kEnvironment$100kYouth Development$86kRecreation & Sports$71kReligion$50kHuman Services$40kHealth$32kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$26,350
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUNDS$26,350
CHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDAT$26,350
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC: $12k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $12k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
PA
UT
MO
MD
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 38 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
22

Total granted

$1.6M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-21%

Still filing today

79%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MM
    MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +50%
  • LA
    LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +226%
  • BU
    BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TA
    TODAY AND TOMORROW K-4
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TT
    TODAY & TOMORROW EDUC FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TA
    TODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCT'L FDTION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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2
Siue Charter School

The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.

Education
3
La Salle Charter Schools Inc

La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…

Education
4
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
5
St Louis Voices Academy of Media Arts

The mission of st. louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.

Education
6
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
7
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
Gateway Science Academy of St Louis

Teachers, parents, and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful college prep curriculum. students do not question "whether" they will go to college but, instead, ask…

Education
9
Momentum Academy Inc

Momentum academy is an open enrollment public charter school. momentum academy pursues academic excellence in a safe, supportive and loving learning environment.

Education
10
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
11
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
12
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Characterplus; the most unlike its peers is Northland College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHLAND COLLEGE: $244,300 · EducationNORTHLAND COLLEGECOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $80,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INCMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $76,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOLLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $72,000 · EducationLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUISBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationBLACKBURN UNIVERSITYWebster University: $67,600 · EducationWebster UniversityDE LA SALLE INC: $67,000 · EducationDE LA SALLE INCST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationREADY READERS: $39,000 · Education+7 more: $92,000 · Education+7 moreCHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDAT: $50,271 · OtherCHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $50,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUISTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $46,000 · OtherTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISAIM HIGH ST LOUIS: $45,000 · OtherAIM HIGH ST LOUISCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREP: $40,000 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREPSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF: $32,000 · OtherOUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 · OtherMARYGROVE SCHOOL: $27,500 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $26,000 · OtherTODAY AND TOMORROW K-4: $25,000 · OtherKIPP ST LOUIS: $25,000 · OtherTODAY & TOMORROW EDUC FUND: $25,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $25,000 · OtherTODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCT'L FDTION: $25,000 · OtherTODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+17 more: $131,300 · Other+17 moreCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC: $65,650 · Recreation & SportsLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $29,500 · Human ServicesMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $40,000 · EnvironmentCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $10,000 · Health
Education$847,900Other$658,071Arts & Culture$112,000Recreation & Sports$98,150Human Services$79,500Environment$40,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE: $244,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $76,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $72,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWebster University: $67,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDE LA SALLE INC: $67,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC: $65,650 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $46,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAIM HIGH ST LOUIS: $45,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADY READERS: $39,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $29,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $27,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIOME SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARACTERPLUS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR KIPP ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Webster University ↗
  • Who funds DE LA SALLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds READY READERS ↗
  • Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOME WORKS - THVP ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BIOME SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Pott FoundationTrio Foundation of St…St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Berges Family Foundat…Norman J Stupp Founda…Youthbridge Community…Centene Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO43.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Berges Family Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Centene Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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