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Prosper Road Foundation Joan Evans & David Evans Co-Trustees

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.

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192024.

Education$798kYouth Development$413kHuman Services$88kPhilanthropy$85kCommunity Improvement$45kEnvironment$34kHealth$18kOther$219k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $260k
$18,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAVEN INC$45,000
YOUTH GUIDANCE$43,560
TRAILS$36,000
TRANSCEND$27,000
MODERN CLASSROOM PROJECT$27,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$27,000
ONEGOAL$18,000
BREAKTHROUGH$18,000
ONE MILLION DEGREES$18,000
AUSTIN TOGETHER$9,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (TMW)$9,000
MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE$9,000
THE ARTHUR PROJECT$9,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTROPHY$5,400
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $25k → 17%The Arthur Project: $25k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $14k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $9k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $8k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
MI
NY
CA
NC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-18%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • YG
    Youth Guidance
    6× · 2019–2024 · $283k · revenue +65%
  • BI
    BRAVEN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $259k · revenue +97%
  • OM
    ONE MILLION DEGREES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $142k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • EM
    EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • MM
    Meadows Mental Health
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TF
    TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
3
New Teacher Center

New teacher center (ntc) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving outcomes for all students by accelerating teacher and school leader effectiveness. from preschool through high school, (continued on schedule o)

Education
4
Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers

To recruit, mentor and train culturally diverse and economically challenged students from high school through college, and place them as effective teachers and committed leaders who strengthen schools and communitities.

Education
5
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
6
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
7
Beyond 12 Education Inc

To increase the number of low income, first generation, historically underrepresented students who graduate from our nation's colleges and universities. through a longitudinal student tracking platform and a personalized student coaching…

Education
8
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
9
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
10
National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…

Education
11
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
12
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eight Million Stories 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Guidance — $283,260 · EducationYouth GuidanceONE MILLION DEGREES — $142,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREESTRANSCEND INC — $135,250 · EducationTRANSCEND INCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $101,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXASUniversity of Chicago — $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago+3 more — $36,625 · EducationBRAVEN INC — $259,100 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCONEGOAL — $128,828 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOALEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentEIGHT MILLION STORIES INCTRAILS — $66,000 · OtherTRAILSCOLLEGE FORWARD — $32,500 · OtherCOLLEGE FORWAR…Meadows Mental Health — $25,000 · OtherMeadows Mental…TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · OtherTURNAROUND FOR…UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (TMW) — $24,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …8 MILLION STORIES — $15,750 · Other8 MILLION STOR…NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTROPHY — $11,700 · OtherNATIONAL CENTE…National Council Family Philanthrop — $10,000 · OtherGI RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $8,250 · OtherTHE ARTHUR PROJECT — $88,250 · Human ServicesTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND — $44,750 · Community ImprovementVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $33,750 · EnvironmentMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $17,750 · Health
Education$798,135Youth Development$412,928Other$218,950Human Services$88,250Philanthropy$85,000Community Improvement$44,750Environment$33,750Health$17,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYouth Guidance — $283,260 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $259,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $142,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTRANSCEND INC — $135,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL — $128,828 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $101,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTHUR PROJECT — $88,250 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN TOGETHER FUND — $44,750 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $33,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD — $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $26,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $17,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Youth Guidance
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES
  • Who funds TRANSCEND INC
  • Who funds ONEGOAL
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds THE ARTHUR PROJECT
  • Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC
  • Who funds AUSTIN TOGETHER FUND
  • Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH
  • Who funds EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC
  • Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
  • Who funds Teach for America 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.

Michael & Susan Dell FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Prosper Road Foundation Joan Evans & David Evans Co-Trustees 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 42%
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Prosper Road Foundation Joan Evans & David Evans Co-Trustees?

Find your warmest path to Prosper Road Foundation Joan Evans & David Evans Co-Trustees 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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