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Paul and Carol Evanson Family Foundation at a glance

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Paul and Carol Evanson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$523k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.7MArts & Culture$389kPhilanthropy$217kEnvironment$96kHuman Services$5kHealth$3k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY - L&B READING ROOM$200,000
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL$125,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL$50,000
CHUCK KNOLL FOUNDATION$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY - COLLECTIONS INNOVATION$25,000
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA$20,000
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$15,000
YALE UNIVERSITY - PEABODY MUSEUM$12,000
WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$10,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$10,000
THE MATHER-HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION$7,500
BISHOP LOUGHLIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$5,000
WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION - CONNECTICUT CHAPTER$3,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10k → 11%WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 10%CHUCK KNOLL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $110k → 13%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $125k → 17%BISHOP LOUGHLIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 20%THE COLONY FOUNDATION & BAY CLUB: $10k → 11%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 19%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $5k → 11%CHUCK KNOLL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $125k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $53k → 9%CHUCK KNOLL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $125k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50k → 9%ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $125k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $50k → 9%ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $55k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10k → 9%ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 13%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL: $50k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10k → 9%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL: $50k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL: $50k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL: $50k → 17%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $30k → 17%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $25k → 17%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $10k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $20k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $15k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $10k → 17%THE MATHER-HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 21 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$3.0M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+136%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    6× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +8%
  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +76%
  • WL
    WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY - EVANSON-WASHBURN SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TC
    THE COLONY FOUNDATION & BAY CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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

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9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross; the most unlike its peers is Miami Marlins Foundation 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $615,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA LAW SCHOOLYALE UNIVERSITY - L&B READING ROOM: $400,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY - L&B READING ROOMYALE UNIVERSITY - MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $400,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY - MEMORIAL LIBRARYYALE UNIVERSITY: $170,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY-PEABODY MUSEUM: $145,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY-PEABODY MUSEUMLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $130,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable FoundationYALE UNIVERSITY - FILM SCREENING ROOM: $100,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · Other+9 more: $232,000 · Other+9 moreST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $535,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORKTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $230,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVER…WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $123,500 · EducationWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC+5 more: $62,000 · Education+5 moreWilton Land Conservation Trust: $95,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $50,750 · Arts & CultureMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMIAMI MARLINS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Health
Other$2,272,000Education$950,500Environment$95,500Arts & Culture$77,750Philanthropy$12,000Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $535,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $130,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $123,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWilton Land Conservation Trust: $95,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $50,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEIR FARM ART ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI MARLINS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wilton Land Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEIR FARM ART ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI MARLINS FOUNDATION 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Ibm International Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Paul and Carol Evanson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Carol Evanson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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