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Howard and Karin Evans Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Health$117kEducation$112kArts & Culture$35kYouth Development$26kFood & Nutrition$22kReligion$3kHousing & Shelter$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Monterey Peninsula College Foundati$50,000
Montage Health Foundation$20,000
Meals on Wheels Foundation$2,400
Boys Girls Club of Monterey Co$1,962
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Walk to end Alzheimers: $1k → 8%Carmelite Monastery of Carmel: $500 → 12%Child Study Center: $1k → 11%National Peace Corp Association: $1k → 14%Food Bank of Monterey County: $1k → 12%Monterey Peninsula College Foundati: $50k → 12%Monterey Peninsula College Foundati: $50k → 12%Montage Health Foundation: $45k → 12%Montage Health Foundation: $21k → 12%Montage Health Foundation: $20k → 12%Montage Health Foundation: $18k → 12%Middlebury Institute Int'l Studies: $6k → 12%Middlebury Institute Int'l Studies: $3k → 12%Montage Health Foundation: $2k → 12%Alzheimer's Association: $1k → 12%Boys Girls Club of Monterey Co: $10k → 12%Boys Girls Club of Monterey Co: $5k → 12%Boys Girls Club of Monterey Co: $5k → 12%Boys Girls Club of Monterey Co: $2k → 12%The First Tee Foundation: $2k → 12%Carmel Bach Festival: $13k → 12%Sunset Center: $10k → 12%Sunset Center: $8k → 12%Carmel Bach Festival: $3k → 12%Meals on Wheels Foundation: $7k → 12%Segera Mission Foundation: $3k → 12%Meals on Wheels Foundation: $6k → 12%Carmel Bach Festival: $3k → 12%Meals on Wheels Foundation: $5k → 12%Carmel Public Library Foundation: $2k → 12%Meals on Wheels Foundation: $2k → 12%Stevenson School: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$295k · 8 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$295k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • MH
    MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $106k · revenue +58%
  • CB
    Carmel Bach Festival Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +21%
  • DV
    DREAM VOLUNTEERS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • UC
    UCSF Cardiology Council
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SM
    Segera Mission Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
3
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Community Foundation for Monterey County

To inspire philanthropy and be a catalyst for strengthening communities throughout monterey county.

Philanthropy
7
Monterey County Film Commission

To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.

Arts & Culture
8
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
9
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey Peninsula College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dream Volunteers. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Monterey Peninsula College Foundation — $100,000 · EducationMonterey Peninsula College FoundationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $4,625 · EducationMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $105,500 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATIONBoys Girls Club of Monterey Co — $21,962 · OtherBoys Girls Club of Monterey C…Meals on Wheels Foundation — $20,600 · OtherMeals on Wheels FoundationSunset Center — $17,500 · OtherSunset CenterMiddlebury Institute Int'l Studies — $9,000 · OtherMiddlebury Institute Int'l St…UCSF Cardiology Council — $3,000 · Other+9 more — $11,500 · Other+9 moreCarmel Bach Festival Inc — $17,500 · Arts & CultureGATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY — $2,500 · Human Services
Education$109,625Health$105,500Other$83,562Arts & Culture$17,500Human Services$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $105,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc — $17,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM VOLUNTEERS — $2,625 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Study Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation
  • Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DREAM VOLUNTEERS
  • Who funds GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY
  • Who funds CARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
  • Who funds Child Study Center
  • Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL

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 Tyler FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tyler Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Howard and Karin Evans Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Howard and Karin Evans Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Howard and Karin Evans Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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