· Private foundation
John P & Kathryn G Evans 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k94 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $8,400 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $6,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $6,000 |
| GOLDWATER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR ELDERS' INDEPENDENCE | $2,400 |
| CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $1,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
91 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +80%
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +70%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CFCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORRone grant, 2017 · $6k
- CFCPAC Foundationone grant, 2023 · $2k
- FCFreedom Center Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -57%
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.
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.
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…
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…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
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…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 147 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE ↗
- Who funds Citizens United Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Leoffler Trust · H & R Peters Family Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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