How much did EVOLVE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of EVOLVE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

integritychildren'searthresearcheducationenvironmentallaw

2019

lawstrong

2020

lawallendalestrong

2021

lawallendalestrongshreveport

2022

allendaleshreveport

2023

allendalestrong

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $30k
$10k–50k7 grants · $140k
$50k–250k2 grants · $230k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC$300,000
NW LOUISIANA FOOD BANK$180,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF LA$50,000
Working America's Education Fund$25,000
Imagine NC First$25,000
Accelerate Change$25,000
VoteRiders$25,000
NATIONAL PARKS & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
SHREVEPORT OPERA$10,000
ROY'S KIDS$5,000
MCNEILL SREET PUMPING STATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY$5,000
THE PEOPLES PROMISE-YOUTH DIVISION$5,000
B'NAI ZION CONGREGATION$5,000
MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 53 repeat orgs$523k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+24%

Still filing today

57%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

MR
MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
OM
OUACHITA MOUNTAINS BIOLOGICAL STATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $415k · revenue +27% · 83% of their budget
AU
AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE
5× · 2017–2021 · $123k · revenue +74%

Funded once

UH
USA HELLO
one grant, 2019 · $50k
FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
one grant, 2020 · $30k
LA
LOUISIANA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Earthjustice

We use the power of the law to protect health, preserve ecosystems, and combat climate change.

Environment

World Resources Institute

To create change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.

International

Environmental Law Institute

To advance effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information, publications, training courses, seminars, research and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and…

Environment

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Educate policymakers about equitable science-based solutions for climate, energy, & the environment

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American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal

Center for International Environmental

Uses the power of law to protect the environment, human rights & ensure a just & sustainable society.

International

The Commons Inc

Partnering with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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American Institute for Conservation

Community Improvement

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect wildlife and the environment.

International

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

Institute for Conservation Leadership

Community Improvement

Conservation X Labs Inc

Applying technology and innovation to prevent the sixth mass extinction.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenpeace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ouachita Mountains Biological Station. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/55

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,510

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.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

37/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,237,600Crime & Legal$655,000Environment$565,000Civil Rights$293,000Arts & Culture$134,000Religion$110,000Community Improvement$107,400

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.

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.

The William B Wiener Jr FoundationLA20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William B Wiener Jr Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The Community Foundation of North · Park Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Tides Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 organisation EVOLVE 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OUACHITA MOUNTAINS BIOLOGICAL STATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 710821529 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OUACHITA MOUNTAINS BIOLOGICAL STATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Evolve Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evolve Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EVOLVE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Evolve Foundation?

More from the funding graph

EVOLVE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Evolve Foundation?

More from the funding graph