Skip to content
The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$434k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$3.7MPhilanthropy$1.4MReligion$465kHealth$372kArts & Culture$306kYouth Development$98kCommunity Improvement$80kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $619k
  • $250k+1 grant · $434k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOVERNER'S ACADEMY$433,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH INC$152,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$125,000
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM$110,750
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OXFORD UNION (OXUF)$106,000
GROTON SCHOOL$75,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE WINSOR SCHOOL$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON$27,693
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN$10,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL$10,000
HILL HOUSE$10,000
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION$10,000
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 (FY18–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALLAS AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%HILL HOUSE: $10k → 16%HILL HOUSE: $10k → 16%HILL HOUSE: $5k → 16%HILL HOUSE: $5k → 16%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

ME
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
UT
DE
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 24 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$4.8M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+57%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PS
    PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $715k · revenue +8%
  • GROTON SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +7%
  • AF
    American Friends of Christ Church Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $465k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF MOUNT DESERT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CF
    COLET FOUNDATION LTD
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -4% · 57% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NEWMAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +77%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
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
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Colet Foundation Ltd. 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

34 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. 34 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GOVERNER'S ACADEMY: $966,500 · OtherTHE GOVERNER'S ACADEMYYALE UNIVERSITY: $425,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHERE WITH CARE: $305,000 · OtherTHERE WITH CAREYALE UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+14 more: $364,000 · Other+14 morePARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $715,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL CORPORATIONGROTON SCHOOL: $625,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc: $465,000 · EducationAmerican Friends of Christ Church IncTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $293,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STAN…THE WINSOR SCHOOL: $120,000 · EducationOXUF INC: $106,000 · Education+4 more: $101,000 · EducationBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,223,200 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARIT…PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COMMUNITY FO…+3 more: $60,800 · PhilanthropyISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $275,750 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $52,693 · Youth DevelopmentWEHOPE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $40,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $20,000 · HealthGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthHILL HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDallas Area Rape Crisis Center: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,510,500Education$2,425,000Philanthropy$1,374,000Arts & Culture$350,750Youth Development$97,693Health$67,000Human Services$40,000

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 budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,223,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $715,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $625,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc: $465,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $293,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $275,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOXUF INC: $106,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $52,693 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLET FOUNDATION LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILL HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWEHOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $10,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Area Rape Crisis Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Marin Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…The San Francisco Fou…Boston Foundation IncAbbVie FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Revolutionary Spaces Inc: 20% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Chandler B and Oliver a Evans Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Chandler B and Oliver a Evans’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home