How much does Evanston Community Foundation give?

Evanston Community Foundation reported 104 itemized grants totaling $2,614,154, out of $3,056,210 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Evanston Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (26%), Education (24%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Evanston Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Connections for the Homeless Inc ($746k), Childcare Network of Evanston ($675k), Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project ($550k).

Does Evanston Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Evanston Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwestern University, Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation, The Kellcie Fund.

Where is Evanston Community Foundation based?

Evanston Community Foundation is based in IL.

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Evanston Community Foundation

The Evanston Community Foundation mobilizes community resources to drive systemic social change and build a thriving, resilient evanston. We achieve this by: investing in community with a long-term and sustainable perspective, empowering leaders to foster innovation and collaboration, and prioritizing community voice and choice.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 104
Itemized grants FY2024: 48
Organizations funded FY2023: 21%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $18,734
Largest grant, FY2024: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 34 to 90; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $45M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Evanston Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	91	$2.5M	34%
FY2023	48	$1.3M	21%
FY2022	34	$1.1M	29%
FY2021	47	$1.3M	21%
FY2020	90	$5.6M	48%
FY2019	50	$1.1M	22%
FY2018	54	$1.1M	37%
FY2017	43	$836k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.9MEducation$3.7MHuman Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.3MArts & Culture$689kYouth Development$605kEmployment$560kHealth$548kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$745,570	8	7%
Childcare Network of Evanston	$674,625	7	6%
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project	$550,000	4	26%
City of Evanston	$545,202	8	n/a
Evanston Township High School District 202 Ed Foundation	$518,423	6	8%
C&W Market and Ice Cream Parlor	$502,663	2	n/a
Books and Breakfast	$459,300	8	29%
Carter Investments dba Feast & Imbibe	$449,209	1	n/a
Infant Welfare Society of Evanston Inc	$439,995	7	7%
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore	$432,304	7	2%

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All grantees of Evanston Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$745,570	8	7%
Childcare Network of Evanston	$674,625	7	6%
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project	$550,000	4	26%
City of Evanston	$545,202	8	n/a
Evanston Township High School District 202 Ed Foundation	$518,423	6	8%
C&W Market and Ice Cream Parlor	$502,663	2	n/a
Books and Breakfast	$459,300	8	29%
Carter Investments dba Feast & Imbibe	$449,209	1	n/a
Infant Welfare Society of Evanston Inc	$439,995	7	7%
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore	$432,304	7	2%
James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy	$428,360	8	8%
Youth Job Center Inc	$411,860	8	7%
University of Chicago	$300,000	1	0%
Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc	$296,022	7	1%
Teertsemasesottehg	$251,915	1	n/a
Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse	$235,368	6	6%
Curt's Cafe	$198,227	4	10%
Gyros Planet	$188,990	1	n/a
Peer Services Inc	$176,000	5	4%
Jennifer's Edibles Inc	$173,208	2	n/a
Evanston Scholars	$167,000	7	3%
Northlight Theatre Inc	$165,600	8	1%
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$165,156	3	n/a
Youth & Opportunity United Inc	$163,739	7	1%
Erie Family Health Center Inc	$146,500	8	0%
Open Communities	$145,192	5	10%
Evanston Chamber of Commerce	$137,133	1	38%
Evanstonskokie Community Consolidated School District 65	$131,198	3	n/a
Evanston Latinos Nfp	$122,250	3	90%
Open Studio Project Inc	$119,152	5	11%
Meals at Home	$117,200	3	8%
Center for Independent Futures	$115,925	7	2%
Reba Early Learning Center	$115,000	4	n/a
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$110,089	3	n/a
Reparations Stakeholders Authority of Evanston Inc	$110,000	3	n/a
Child Care Center of Evanston Inc	$109,420	4	4%
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation	$105,654	7	n/a
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$104,950	3	n/a
Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti	$100,000	1	n/a
Interfaith Action of Evanston	$98,770	6	7%
C and W Market Foundation	$92,000	3	79%
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc	$87,691	4	8%
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$83,718	3	n/a
Literacy Works	$82,700	6	7%
Mudlark Theater Company NFP	$81,200	5	5%
Family Promise Chicago North Shore	$78,832	3	8%
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$78,782	3	n/a
Warren W Cherry Preschool	$77,650	4	1%
Institute for Therapy Through the Arts	$77,500	5	2%
After School Matters Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Evergreen Climate Innovations	$75,000	1	2%
Washington School PTA	$73,315	3	54%
Evanston Symphony Orchestra Association	$71,523	6	10%
Housing Options for the Mentally-Ill in Evanston Inc	$71,500	4	1%
Art Encounter	$68,000	3	6%
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers	$67,720	6	1%
Community Organizing and Family Issues	$67,500	4	1%
Young Black and Lit	$65,000	3	18%
Northwestern University	$65,000	1	0%
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$64,340	3	n/a
Trilogy Inc	$64,200	5	0%
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$62,546	3	n/a
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$61,476	3	n/a
School for Little Children of Evanston	$61,013	1	n/a
The Harbour Inc	$59,000	3	1%
Puerta Abierta	$57,500	2	n/a
Kingsley School PTA District 65	$55,528	3	n/a
Willard School PTA Inc	$53,797	3	48%
Evanston Grows	$53,000	3	12%
PTA Dewey School	$52,684	3	33%
Center for Neighborhood Technology	$51,500	2	1%
STEM School Evanston	$50,000	2	n/a
Children's Advocacy Center of North & Northwest Cook County	$47,500	3	1%
Lincoln School PTA	$46,066	2	n/a
Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp	$44,025	3	n/a
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County	$41,600	4	1%
Family Focus Legacy	$40,500	1	0%
Metropolitan Family Services	$40,000	2	0%
Hope Ignites Chicago	$40,000	2	1%
Firstrepair	$38,500	1	3%
Evanston Crickett Club	$37,500	1	n/a
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers	$37,468	2	n/a
Nami Cook County North Suburban	$36,791	3	4%
Bessie Rhodes PTA	$35,674	2	n/a
Reba Place Development Corporation	$35,208	2	7%
Chessmen Club of the North Shore Inc	$34,600	3	8%
Orrington School PTA	$34,141	3	36%
Housing Opportunities for Women Inc	$33,000	2	0%
The Actors Gymnasium Inc	$32,500	3	1%
Park School PTA	$30,208	3	n/a
Hip Circle Empowerment Center	$30,000	3	n/a
Healthconnect One	$30,000	2	9%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill	$29,644	2	0%
Evanstonskokie District 65 Educational Foundation (Foundation 65)	$29,500	3	4%
Community Partners	$29,000	2	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$27,670	3	0%
Piven Theatre Workshop	$26,775	3	2%
Purple Line Adventure Play	$26,007	2	n/a
Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families	$25,500	1	14%
Evanston Aspa	$25,000	1	n/a
Evanston Own It	$25,000	1	n/a
The Growing Season Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Wings Program Inc	$25,000	1	0%
St Athanasius Parish	$25,000	1	n/a
Latinos En Evanston Northshore Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Roycemore School	$25,000	1	0%
Artsie Inc	$25,000	1	36%
Youth Technology Corps Nfp Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$23,250	3	0%
Tech All Stars	$22,400	1	n/a
Seniors Action Services Inc Dba Argentium Care	$21,906	2	1%
The College of Wooster	$21,000	3	0%
Cooperative Development Fund of Cds	$20,000	1	2%
Second Baptist Church	$20,000	1	n/a
We Evanston	$20,000	2	n/a
Evanston First Alliance Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Sunrise Movement Education Fund	$20,000	2	0%
Project Kesher	$20,000	3	1%
Cusp Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	3%
North Shore Senior Center	$20,000	2	0%
Rebuilding Together North Suburban Chicago	$20,000	1	5%
Oakton Community College Educational Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
iKandi Hair Studio	$20,000	1	n/a
Next Steps for Transformation NFP	$20,000	1	n/a
Music Theatre Works Inc	$19,650	3	1%
Evanston Roundtable Media Nfp	$19,000	1	3%
Lincolnwood School PTA	$18,242	1	n/a
Lincoln Elementary School PTA	$17,949	1	n/a
Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association	$15,000	1	2%
Givedirectly Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary	$15,000	1	n/a
Trade Education Collective Inc	$15,000	1	11%
Community Partners for Affordable Housing	$14,000	1	1%
She Is Code	$13,500	1	n/a
The Haymarket Opera Company Nfp	$13,000	2	1%
Evanston Environmental Association	$12,178	1	22%
North Channel Community Rowing	$12,000	1	12%
Unrwa USA National Committee Inc	$12,000	2	0%
Ridgeville Park District Cultural Development Foundation	$12,000	1	n/a
Evanston Community Cooperative	$11,000	2	n/a
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$10,800	2	0%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$10,800	1	0%
Women Initiating New Directions	$10,600	1	9%
Rainbows for All Children Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Evanston Rules (Fiscal Sponsor Shorefront Legacy Center)	$10,000	1	n/a
United States Fund for Unicef	$10,000	1	0%
The Woman's Club of Evanston	$10,000	1	2%
Kids Create Change	$10,000	1	n/a
Muse of Fire Theatre Company	$10,000	1	n/a
Lake Street Church	$10,000	1	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$10,000	1	0%
United Way Suncoast Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Openlands	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of the Robert Crown Center	$10,000	1	0%
Depaul University	$10,000	1	0%
Amherst College Trustees	$10,000	1	0%
The Night Ministry	$10,000	1	0%
Club Tree'dHouse	$10,000	2	n/a
Codecrew	$10,000	1	0%
Evanston Case	$10,000	1	n/a
City of Evanston - Age-Friendly Task ForceHousing	$9,550	1	n/a
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana	$7,700	1	0%
Gateway Foundation Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Cradles to Crayons Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian	$7,000	1	n/a
Rotary Club of Evanston Charitable Fund Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Chicago Public Media Inc	$5,800	1	0%
The Center for Womens History and Leadership	$5,750	1	n/a
Sounds Good Choir Nfp	$5,500	1	1%
Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation	$5,500	1	0%
Jewish Child and Family Services	$5,500	1	0%
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	$5,000	1	n/a
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations	$5,000	1	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Host Foundation	$5,000	1	8%
Shower Up	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

Evanston Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 117 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 117.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Northwestern UniversityIL60.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern University · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Frankel Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Finnegan Family Foundation · Francis Beidler Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women

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.

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About Evanston Community Foundation

How much does Evanston Community Foundation give?: Evanston Community Foundation reported 104 itemized grants totaling $2,614,154, out of $3,056,210 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Evanston Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (26%), Education (24%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Evanston Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Connections for the Homeless Inc ($746k), Childcare Network of Evanston ($675k), Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project ($550k).
Does Evanston Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Evanston Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwestern University, Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation, The Kellcie Fund.
Where is Evanston Community Foundation based?: Evanston Community Foundation is based in IL.