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Evening Star 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Evening Star Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Evening Star Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $305k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TEEN PROJECT | $78,750 |
| THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $23,750 |
| GRACE CHURCH OF DUPAGE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $20,000 |
| THE TEEN PROJECT | $20,000 |
| FOR THE CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE | $18,750 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $15,000 |
| MONTANA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| KIDWORKS | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| HARVEST INDIA | $10,000 |
| HOPE REFUGE | $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 (FY17–21, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 90% of Evening Star 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TTThe Teen Project Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $310k · revenue +102%
- NANAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · $138k · revenue +52%
- GCGreat Commission Foundation In5× · 2017–2021 · $138k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $94k · revenue +222%
- HHHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +132%
- TOTOUCH OF LOVE INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +120%
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 get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Newport Harbor Sailors Basketball Club. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Great Commission Foundation In ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Montana Family Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST INDIA ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds HOPE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTHXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds TOUCH OF LOVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds International Deaf Education Association ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR SAILORS BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds Christianity Today International ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Giving University · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Greater Horizons · California Community 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 Evening Star 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.
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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