· Private foundation
Phyllis H & Wm H Evans Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT | $5,000 |
| THE FREEDOM OF CREATION | $3,500 |
| THE FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS | $3,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION O | $3,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENS | $2,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD PETS | $2,000 |
| THE RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND BALLET | $2,000 |
| THE YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $1,500 |
| THE TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLI | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CBCLEVELAND BALLET6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +188%
- CRCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +9%
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- HMHE MASTERS SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $2k
- TYTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORINGone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SESCOTT EVANS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is Hathaway Brown School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Freedom in Creation ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PETS ↗
- Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HEROES' VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · John P Murphy Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · George Codrington Fdnhirtlena · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Perkins Charitable 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 Phyllis H & Wm H Evans Charitable 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.
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.