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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.

$306k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$368kAnimals$199kHuman Services$130kCrime & Legal$50kYouth Development$50kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$33kPhilanthropy$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY$50,000
KELSO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$35,000
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER$35,000
LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$35,000
RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL$35,000
COWLITZ COUNTY CASA$20,000
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$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
ST ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS: $4k → 12%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $35k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $20k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $20k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $19k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $16k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $15k → 13%YOUTH & FAMILY LINK: $15k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $10k → 13%YOUTH & FAMILY LINK: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $3k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$623k · 12 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$623k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & 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

  • KP
    Kelso Public Schools Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +1%
  • ES
    EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +3%
  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • RL
    RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

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.

Human Services
2
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
3
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
4
Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition
5
Columbia Valley Community Health

The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.

Health
6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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7
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
8
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Re Sources

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.

Environment
10
Chelan Valley Hope

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…

Human Services
11
Columbia River Mental Health Services

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.

Health
12
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Sw Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $198,366 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTYRA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherRA LONG HIGH SCHOOLEAT AND THRIVE: $32,848 · OtherEAT AND THRIVERA LONG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherRA LONG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONPEACEHEALTHSJMCF: $15,000 · Other+17 more: $86,428 · Other+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUND…Kelso Public Schools Foundation: $85,000 · EducationKelso Public Schools Foundatio…LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDAT…EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $81,491 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY SUPPORT S…Youth and Family Link: $38,511 · Human ServicesYouth and Family Li…FISH of Cowlitz County: $35,000 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz Cou…+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesCOWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES: $49,906 · Civil RightsCommunity Foundation for SW Washington: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Health Partners: $5,000 · HealthPortland Backpack: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$427,642Education$250,000Human Services$162,002Civil Rights$49,906Philanthropy$22,000Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $198,366 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKelso Public Schools Foundation: $85,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $81,491 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES: $49,906 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYouth and Family Link: $38,511 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County: $35,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetEAT AND THRIVE: $32,848 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCommunity Foundation for SW Washington: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCowlitz Chaplaincy: $14,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Health Partners: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Home Health & Hospice: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Backpack: $3,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBROWN HOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAC PORTLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Firstenburg Found…The Oregon Community …The Health Care Found…The Honorable Frank L…The Kirchner Foundati…United Way of Cowlitz…John M McClelland Sr …The Wollenberg Founda…PeaceHealthCareoregon IncUnited Way of the Col…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Venture Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evans Venture Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Evans Venture Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evans Venture 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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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