How much does Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation give?

Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $88,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (22%), Youth Development (12%), Human Services (12%).

Who are Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Lights ($85k), Wild Sheep Foundation ($56k), Women's Empowerment ($47k).

Does Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.

Where is Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation based?

Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation is based in WI.

Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation

Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$153kYouth Development$85kHuman Services$81kPublic Benefit$77kHousing & Shelter$70kFood & Nutrition$67kEnvironment$39kHealth$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $77k
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$967k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHICAGO LIGHTS	$12,250
WOMENS EMPOWERMENT	$5,000
SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISHES	$5,000
CHIPPEWA HUMANE ASSOC	$5,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA	$5,000
RIVER CITY FOOD BANK	$5,000
WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION	$3,500
Individual grant recipient	$3,200
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION	$3,100
AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE	$3,100
NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION	$3,100
Individual grant recipient	$3,100
PHEASANTS FOREVER	$3,100
ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS	$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$609k · 45 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$609k

$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+38%

Still filing today

56%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther

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

CL
CHICAGO LIGHTS
9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +5%
WS
WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +119%
WE
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +115%

Funded once

RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
one grant, 2022 · $7k
VO
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOISgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +107%
PH
PROJECT H O P E INC
one grant, 2020 · $4k

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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…

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Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals

Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Onefest Ltd. 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

55 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. 55 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/55

Grantees still filing

46/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$346,377Animals$95,167Philanthropy$87,000Human Services$58,167Education$56,000Community Improvement$37,750Arts & Culture$18,500

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

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN14.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evon D and Jack H Keck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home