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Evolve 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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$1.5MEnvironment$955kFood & Nutrition$391kArts & Culture$267kCommunity Improvement$244kHuman Services$145kPublic Benefit$139kHealth$93kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC$300,000
NW LOUISIANA FOOD BANK$180,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF LA$50,000
Accelerate Change$25,000
Imagine NC First$25,000
VoteRiders$25,000
Working America's Education Fund$25,000
NATIONAL PARKS & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
SHREVEPORT OPERA$10,000
MCNEILL SREET PUMPING STATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY$5,000
EKWOK VILLAGE COUNCIL$5,000
ROY'S KIDS$5,000
MUSEUM OF BIBLICAL ART$5,000
B'NAI ZION CONGREGATION$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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%USA HELLO: $50k → 12%ROY'S KIDS: $20k → 22%ROY'S KIDS: $15k → 22%ROY'S KIDS: $10k → 22%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%ROY'S KIDS: $5k → 22%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%ROY'S KIDS: $5k → 22%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 53 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

53
42

Total granted

$3.6M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+7%

Still filing today

77%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • OM
    Ouachita Mountains Biological Station
    4× · 2017–2020 · $415k · revenue +27% · 83% of their budget
  • AU
    AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $123k · revenue +103%
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • U
    USAHELLOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +175%
  • NL
    NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • LA
    Louisiana Architecture Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -53%
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
11
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
12
Energy and Policy Institute

Expose the harms posed by fossil-fuel and monopoly utility interests to ratepayers and the environment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 101 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NW LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $360,000 · OtherNW LOUISIANA FOOD BANKACLU FOUNDATION OF LA: $320,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF LATULANE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $150,000 · OtherTULANE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWALLENDALE STRONG: $110,000 · OtherALLENDALE STRONGSTRONG TOWNS: $70,000 · Other+54 more: $773,400 · Other+54 moreOuachita Mountains Biological Station: $415,000 · EnvironmentOuachita Mountains …NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONS…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $45,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EART…+15 more: $135,500 · Environment+15 moreMILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · Crime & LegalMILITARY RELIGIOUS…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $55,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY L…AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $123,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS…PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FO…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …VOTERIDERS: $25,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDER…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsACCELERAT…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ATHEISTS INC: $90,000 · ReligionMiracle of Pentecost Foundation Inc: $71,100 · ReligionTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · ReligionFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · ReligionMCNEILL STREET PUMPING STATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT OPERA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUT: $17,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFREE PRESS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROYS KIDS: $55,000 · Human ServicesUSAHELLO: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Human Services
Other$1,783,400Environment$700,500Crime & Legal$655,000Civil Rights$328,000Religion$271,100Arts & Culture$224,000Human Services$140,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetOuachita Mountains Biological Station: $415,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $123,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ATHEISTS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMiracle of Pentecost Foundation Inc: $71,100 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSTRONG TOWNS: $70,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMCNEILL STREET PUMPING STATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $65,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROYS KIDS: $55,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHREVEPORT VOLUNTEER NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSHREVEPORT OPERA: $50,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana Architecture Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetICIVICS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUTHOUT: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC: $16,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE PRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Rockefeller Family Fu…The William B Wiener …Carolyn W & Charles T…Park Foundation IncNew Venture FundRockefeller Philanthr…The Powers Foundation…Zadeck Family Foundat…The Alta and John Fra…Rockefeller Brothers …Baton Rouge Area Foun…
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The William B Wiener Jr Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Powers Foundation Inc · Zadeck Family Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Baton Rouge Area Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Evolve Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evolve 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 101 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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