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Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc Restricted u/w of Lettie Pate Evans

To provide to certain named beneficiaries annual monetary support designated by amount or percentage in the will of Lettie Pate Evans, deceased.

$139M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$28M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$399MHealth$109MScience & Tech$109MReligion$73MArts & Culture$36M
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $250k+11 grants · $139M
$6,966,976
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Berry College$27,867,903
Washington and Lee University$20,900,928
Georgia Institute of Technology$20,900,928
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary$13,933,952
Tallulah Falls School Inc$13,933,952
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation$6,966,976
Emory University$6,966,976
William and Mary Foundation$6,966,976
Episcopal High School in Virginia$6,966,976
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation$6,966,976
Bath County Community Hospital (Hot Springs Valley Nursing Assn Inc)$6,966,976
Bruton Parish Church Endowment Fund Inc$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Georgia Institute of Technology: $20.9M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $13.9M → 13%Emory University: $7.0M → 14%Berry College: $27.9M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $13.9M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $20.9M → 12%Bath County Community Hospital (Hot Springs Valley Nursing Assn Inc): $7.0M → 13%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $7.0M → 22%Georgia Institute of Technology: $20.2M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $13.4M → 13%Emory University: $6.7M → 14%Berry College: $26.9M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $13.4M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $20.2M → 12%Bath County Community Hospital (Hot Springs Valley Nursing Assn Inc): $6.7M → 13%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $6.7M → 22%Georgia Institute of Technology: $18.4M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $12.3M → 13%Emory University: $6.1M → 14%Berry College: $24.6M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $12.3M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $18.4M → 12%Bath County Community Hospital (Hot Springs Valley Nursing Assn Inc): $6.1M → 13%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $6.1M → 22%Georgia Institute of Technology: $17.4M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $11.6M → 13%Emory University: $5.8M → 14%Berry College: $23.1M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $11.6M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $17.4M → 12%Bath County Community Hospital (Hot Springs Valley Nursing Assn Inc): $5.8M → 13%Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $5.8M → 22%Georgia Institute of Technology: $16.3M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $10.9M → 13%Berry College: $21.7M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $10.9M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $16.3M → 12%Georgia Institute of Technology: $15.7M → 13%Tallulah Falls School Inc: $10.5M → 13%Berry College: $20.9M → 15%Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary: $10.5M → 9%Washington and Lee University: $15.7M → 12%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation: $7.0M → 14%Episcopal High School in Virginia: $7.0M → 9%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation: $6.7M → 14%Episcopal High School in Virginia: $6.7M → 9%Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation: $6.1M → 14%Episcopal High School in Virginia: $6.1M → 9%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$726M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$726M
$0

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145M · revenue +29%
  • Washington and Lee University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $109M · revenue +134%
  • TF
    TALLULAH FALLS SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73M · revenue +30% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    Boston Architectural College

    The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

    —
    2
    Vanderbilt University

    See Disclosure Above.

    Education
    3
    Williams College

    Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

    Education
    4
    Virginia Wesleyan University

    Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

    —
    5
    University of Lynchburg

    The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

    Education
    6
    Wilson College

    Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

    Education
    7
    Trustees of Dartmouth College

    Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

    Education
    8
    President and Trustees of Bates College

    Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

    Education
    9
    University of Virginia Investment Management Company

    The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

    Education
    10
    Washington & Jefferson College

    To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

    Education
    11
    Hampden-Sydney College

    Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

    Education
    12
    Wellesley College

    To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William & Mary Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bruton Parish Church Endowment Fund Inc. 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

    9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    8/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    BERRY COLLEGE INC: $145,114,824 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCWashington and Lee University: $108,836,117 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityTALLULAH FALLS SCHOOL INC: $72,557,412 · EducationTALLULAH FALLS SCHOOL INCWilliam & Mary Foundation: $36,278,706 · EducationWilliam & Mary FoundationEmory University: $36,278,706 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $36,278,706 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIAGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $108,836,117 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN VIRGINIA: $72,557,412 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL …CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $36,278,706 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA I…BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $36,278,706 · HealthVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $36,278,706 · Arts & CultureBRUTON PARISH CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $36,000 · Religion
    Education$435,344,471Other$217,672,235Health$36,278,706Arts & Culture$36,278,706Religion$36,000

    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 budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $145,114,824 over 6y, 14% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $108,836,117 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetTALLULAH FALLS SCHOOL INC: $72,557,412 over 6y, 52% of budgetBATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $36,278,706 over 6y, 22% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $36,278,706 over 6y, 15% of budgetEmory University: $36,278,706 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $36,278,706 over 6y, 20% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $36,278,706 over 6y, 13% of budgetBRUTON PARISH CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $36,000 over 6y, 10% 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.

    • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
    • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
    • Who funds TALLULAH FALLS SCHOOL INC ↗
    • Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
    • Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
    • Who funds Emory University ↗
    • Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
    • Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
    • Who funds BRUTON PARISH CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    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 Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc Restricted u/w of Lettie Pate Evans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc Restricted u/w of Lettie Pate Evans. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      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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      Find your warmest path to Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc Restricted u/w of Lettie Pate Evans 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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