· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $63,455 |
| GOODKIDS MADCITY ENGLEWOOD | $50,000 |
| FOSTER PROGRESS | $50,000 |
| HEALING TO ACTION | $50,000 |
| GYRLS IN THE HOOD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EDOVO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PROJECT ONETEN | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +207%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2025 · $951k · revenue +41%- FPFoster Progress9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue ×15 · 95% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ULUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Fellows persist through graduation and into careers that build long-term economic mobility for themselves & their communities.
Our mission is to build career pathways for early-stage professionals who are harnessing the power of their leadership through internships professional roles and entrepreneurial opportunities to access a stable well-paid and values-aligned…
PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.
We empower people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The mission of the Black Researchers Collective is to advance racial equity by training and equipping communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 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.
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 BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Foster Progress ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds Healing to Action ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds EDOVO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gyrls In The HOOD Foundation ↗
- Who funds Project OneTen ↗
- Who funds Good Kids Mad City - Englewood ↗
- Who funds Repro TLC ↗
- Who funds Collective Initiatives 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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · Robert R McCormick Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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