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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOVERNOR'S MANSION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON RECREATIONAL CLUB FOUNDATION - MEN'S LACROSSE | $1,000 |
| LANDCAN | $1,000 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE GOODTIMES PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ROOT | $1,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND OF NYC | $1,000 |
| THE FOOD PROJECT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - BRAYLON MEADE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL RIGTH OF WAY ASSOCIATION | $800 |
| BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Evans Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFArlington Food Assistance Center6× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +75%
IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +451%
ROOT NS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- AFALL Foundation of Washingtongraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +121%
- OCOLYMPIC COAST NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARYone grant, 2019 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Port Townsend Golf Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ALL Foundation of Washington ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GOVERNORS MANSION ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AQUATIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Land Conservation Assistance Network ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Names Family Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · United Way of King County · Boston Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Bungie Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Raikes 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 organization The Evans Family 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.
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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