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Evans Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Evans Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$715k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$445kYouth Development$440kFood & Nutrition$195kHuman Services$160kHealth$150kScience & Tech$70kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $420k
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
State University of Iowa Foundation$80,000
Boys Girls Club Coachella Valley$60,000
Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Cent$60,000
Boys Girls Clubs of Central Iowa In$60,000
Glen Ellyn Food Pantry$60,000
Boys Girls Club Central Orange Coas$50,000
Polk County Medical Society Foundat$50,000
Society of St Vincent de Paul$40,000
Food in Need of Distribution Inc$40,000
Bridge Communities Inc$35,000
Variety -the Children's Charity of$35,000
Mile High 360$25,000
Biocom Institute$25,000
CASA of Orange County$20,000
Young Life$20,000
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 (FY23–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Cent: $60k → 7%Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Cent: $50k → 7%Martha's Village Kitchen Inc: $20k → 11%Young Women's Resource Center: $15k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $15k → 10%Young Women's Resource Center: $15k → 10%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 79% of Evans Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.

Evans Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+36%

Still filing today

72%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • GE
    GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +11%
  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CS
    CLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -1%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +57%
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
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
Child Educational Center

The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.

Human Services
8
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
9
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
The Center for Early Education

The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…

Education
12
Dublin Food Pantry

To eliminate hunger and food insecurity in our community by increasing access to food and necessities for those who need it most within the city of dublin and dublin school district. the dublin food pantry relies on community partnerships,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Science Delivered. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys Girls Clubs of Central Iowa In: $155,000 · OtherBoys Girls Clubs of Central Iowa InVariety -the Children's Charity of: $110,000 · OtherVariety -the Children's Charity ofGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY: $110,000 · OtherGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRYBoys Girls Club Coachella Valley: $105,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club Coachella ValleyPolk County Medical Society Foundat: $100,000 · OtherPolk County Medical Society FoundatSociety of St Vincent de Paul: $100,000 · OtherSociety of St Vincent de PaulBoys Girls Club Central Orange Coas: $50,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club Central Orange CoasBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $40,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 · Other+3 more: $60,000 · Other+3 moreSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IO…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …Read With Me Volunteer Programs: $35,000 · EducationRead With Me Volunteer…SCIENCE DELIVERED: $30,000 · EducationSCIENCE DELIVEREDPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS: $25,000 · EducationPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIO…GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 · Human ServicesGLEN ELLYN C…YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'…MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VIL…FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS: $50,000 · InternationalMILE HIGH 360: $45,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$870,000Education$320,000Human Services$175,000Food & Nutrition$65,000Housing & Shelter$65,000International$50,000Recreation & Sports$45,000

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 budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY: $110,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSCIENCE DELIVERED: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS: $25,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Evans Family Foundati…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Evans Family FoundationCA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evans Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Evans Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evans Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Evans Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Evans Family Charitable Foundation 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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