How much did TESS EVANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2019?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of TESS EVANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2019 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$931k

Total assets

Largest grants

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$8,300
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,900
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OREGON$3,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$2,760
LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE$1,800
GAMPO ABBEY$1,500
SURMANG FOUNDATION$1,500
NALANDA TRANSLATION COMMITTEE$1,500
PRISON MINDFULNESS INSTITUTE$1,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$1,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,000
KONCHOK FOUNDATION$1,000

02The need

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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$139k · 30 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$139k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%

+188%

Still filing today

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

OG
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN
3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +4%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +46%
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +74%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2017 · $10k
WL
WORLD LAND TRUST
one grant, 2017 · $920
A
ACCESSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +188%

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.

Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregons wildlands wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations

Environment

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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NatureServe

NatureServe is the global leader in data, science and technology to conserve biodiversity.

Environment

World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon

The mission of WorldOregon is to engage Oregonians with the world and broaden public awareness and understanding of international affairs.

International

Asia Wild

Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…

Animals

The Orianne Society

The Orianne Society works to conserve critical ecosystems for imperiled reptiles and amphibians using science, applied conservation, and education.

Animals

The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

To partner with communities across oregon in conserving, enhancing, and restoring the physical and ecological values of oregon's greatest wetlands for current and future generations.

Environment

Orca Conservancy

Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.

Animals

Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wcg staff in partnership with the government of dr congo, work in a holistic manner to engage local communities in the protection of habitat and wildlife in the most biologically diverse forest in africa.

Animals

Oregon Garden Foundation

The mission of the oregon garden foundation is to advance the growth and sustainability of the oregon garden, through philanthropy and thoughtful oversight.

Environment

Rogue Climate

To empower Southern Oreogn communites most impacted by climate change.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Oregon Community Foundation. 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$93,360International$23,840Environment$16,620Philanthropy$10,500Religion$8,180Education$1,500Health$1,500Animals$100

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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation TESS 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KONCHOK FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800056576 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KONCHOK FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Tess Evans Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tess Evans Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TESS EVANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Tess Evans Charitable Foundation?

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TESS EVANS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Tess Evans Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph