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Evans Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Polk County Medical Society Foundat | $100,000 |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $50,000 |
| Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Cent | $50,000 |
| Boys Girls Club Coachella Valley | $50,000 |
| Mizell Senior Center of Palm Spring | $30,000 |
| Glen Ellyn Food Pantry | $30,000 |
| Food in Need of Distribution Inc | $25,000 |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $20,000 |
| Mile High 360 | $20,000 |
| Science Delivered | $15,000 |
| Biocom Institute | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 53% of Evans Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
DRAKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $390k · revenue +20%- CSCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS6× · 2017–2022 · $290k · revenue +105%
- GEGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $287k · revenue +155%
Funded once
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +46%- UWUnited Way of the Desertone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -41%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +105%
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.
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 california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% 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 6% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 55 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Read With Me Volunteer Programs ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Desert ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE DELIVERED ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
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: Evans Family Charitable Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · EMC Insurance 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 Evans Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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