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The Evans Family Foundation at a glance

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The Evans Family 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.

$510k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$672kArts & Culture$35kEducation$10kReligion$2kCommunity Improvement$750Employment$150
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH$400,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$100,000
JONES CENTER$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $25k → 8%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $275k → 14%SYLVAN HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $150 → 17%DERMOTT CEMETARY ASSOCIATION: $250 → 21%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $10k → 8%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61k → 14%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%THADEN SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%JONES CENTER: $10k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $400 → 14%SPRINGDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%RETURNING HOME: $150 → 14%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH: $400k → 14%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $75k → 14%ENDEAVOR FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE: $17k → 14%ENDEAVOR FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE: $150 → 14%EASTSIDE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $150 → 14%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$732k · 6 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$732k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $394k · revenue +54%
  • EF
    EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +360%
  • CO
    Circle of Life
    2× · 2022–2023 · $17k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • TS
    THADEN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • CM
    COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750 · revenue +61%
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
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
2
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support

Excellerate is committed to ensuring that all residents of northwest arkansas are mentally and physically healthy, safe, and economically and socially stable

Philanthropy
5
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
6
Clarehouse Inc

Mission: We embrace death and dying as a normal part of life and provide, at no cost to guests and families, the support people need to make the most of every moment.Vision: Clarehouse envisions a loving community where all people have the…

Human Services
7
Caring Cross Inc

Caring cross is focused upon accelerating the development and implementation of advanced medicines like car-t cell and stem cell gene therapies. in partnership with like-minded stakeholders, caring cross develops and deploys technologies,…

Health
8
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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9
T1D Exchange Inc

Through real-world evidence and clinical data collection and analysis, our programs provide novel insights that identify gaps in care and refine best practices to improve the lives of those living with diabetes. t1d exchange supports…

Health
10
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
Ozark Health Inc Van Buren Co Mem Hosp & Nursing Home

Acute care hospital, nursing home, rural health clinic, and home health agency

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH: $400,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCHCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $75,000 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NORTHWEST ARKANSAS+5 more: $11,950 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $393,900 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+1 more: $500 · HealthEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyCircle of Life: $17,150 · PhilanthropyCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHADEN SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $300 · EducationCOMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD: $750 · Community ImprovementRETURNING HOME INC: $150 · Employment
Other$736,950Health$394,400Philanthropy$52,150Arts & Culture$35,000Education$10,300Community Improvement$750Employment$150

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 budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $393,900 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCircle of Life: $17,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHADEN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringdale Public Schools Education Foundation: $300 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.

  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
  • Who funds Circle of Life ↗
  • Who funds THADEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES LTD ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Springdale Public Schools Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RETURNING HOME 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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Wal-Mart FoundationAlice L Walton Founda…Walton Family Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Evans Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Evans Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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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