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Evans Venture 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY | $50,000 |
| LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| KELSO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER | $35,000 |
| RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY | $20,000 |
| COWLITZ COUNTY CASA | $20,000 |
| YOUTH & FAMILY LINK | $15,000 |
| EAT AND THRIVE | $15,000 |
| PEACEHEALTHSJMCF | $15,000 |
| TOUTLE LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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; $70k 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
- KPKelso Public Schools Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +1%
- ESEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER4× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +3%
- LCLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
- RLRA LONG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.
The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Housing Counseling Services
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…
Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.
To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Sw Washington and the most unlike its peers is Community Health Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kelso Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Youth and Family Link ↗
- Who funds FISH of Cowlitz County ↗
- Who funds EAT AND THRIVE ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for SW Washington ↗
- Who funds Cowlitz Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Health Partners ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Backpack ↗
- Who funds Community Home Health & Hospice ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN HOPE ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds AC PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Firstenburg Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Health Care Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · The Kirchner Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · PeaceHealth · Careoregon Inc · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
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 Venture 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
- Ac Portland — 14% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 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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