· Private foundation
Tess Evans Charitable Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| SURMANG FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| PRISON MINDFULNESS INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| KONCHOK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Tess Evans Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +81% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +41%- OGORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +25%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
- WLWORLD LAND TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $920
- AACCESSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +232%
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.
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.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
The international rhino foundation (irf) ensures the survival of rhinos through strategic partnerships, targeted protection, and scientifically sound interventions.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Konchok Foundation ↗
- Who funds DRALA MOUNTAIN CENTER Formerly Shambhala Mountain Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds TERGAR INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ↗
- Who funds LOTUS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pema Chodron Foundation · Chintamani Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tess Evans Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tess Evans Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Access: 65% of income from government
- Community Works Inc: 59% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
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