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Phyllis H & Wm H Evans Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$71kEnvironment$42kEducation$41kInternational$24kHealth$20kYouth Development$16kEmployment$12kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$801k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT$5,000
THE FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$3,500
THE FREEDOM OF CREATION$3,500
THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION O$3,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$3,000
THE CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER$2,500
THE MASTERS SCHOOL$2,000
NEIGHBORHOOD PETS$2,000
THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$2,000
THE CLEVELAND BALLET$2,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$2,000
HOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENS$2,000
THE RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER$2,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELA$1,500
THE TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLI$1,500
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WINDRUSH FARM: $1k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DC
HI
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 38 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
11

Total granted

$255k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+45%

Still filing today

66%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • CB
    CLEVELAND BALLET
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +188%
  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
  • CR
    CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • HM
    HE MASTERS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • TY
    TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SE
    SCOTT EVANS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Global Cleveland

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.

Human Services
2
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
4
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy
5
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
6
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
7
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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8
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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9
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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10
The Cleveland Institute of Art

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…

Education
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Zoological Society; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $11,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITEDTHE MASTERS SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTHE MASTERS SCHOOLTHE RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $8,000 · OtherTHE RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTERTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE: $7,500 · OtherTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCEBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $7,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELANDELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $6,000 · OtherTHE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION O: $4,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $4,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $4,000 · OtherJFSA ASCENTIA PETER HOKE FUND: $4,000 · OtherSHAKER LAKES NATURE CENTER: $4,000 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS AND GARDENS: $4,000 · OtherTHE MADEIRA FUND: $4,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD PETS: $7,750 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD PETSIDEASTREAM: $7,000 · OtherIDEASTREAM+16 more: $20,700 · Other+16 moreCLEVELAND BALLET: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND BALLETTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHO…THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSEGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES THEATER FEST…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATU…The Musical Arts Association: $5,500 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Associa…HEROES' VOICES INC: $4,250 · Arts & CultureHEROES' VOICES INCHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BRO…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $14,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF B…THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,500 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO E…THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE HOLDEN…WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RE…NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL T…CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,000 · EnvironmentFreedom in Creation: $15,500 · InternationalFreedom i…MERCADO GLOBAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalMERCADO G…United States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 · InternationalCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $11,000 · HealthGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$113,950Arts & Culture$57,750Education$29,000Environment$25,500International$23,500Health$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,500

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 budgetFreedom in Creation: $15,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND BALLET: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PETS: $7,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Freedom in Creation ↗
  • Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PETS ↗
  • Who funds TORCHLIGHT YOUTH MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The George Gund Found…Emma R Fox Char Trust…John P Murphy Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The Char and Chuck Fo…George Codrington Fdn…The Kelvin & Eleanor …The O'Neill Brothers …The Sk Wellman Founda…Perkins Charitable Fo…
The Cleveland FoundationOH28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Phyllis H & Wm H Evans Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phyllis H & Wm H Evans Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 52 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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