· 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.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - BRAYLON MEADE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $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 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL RIGTH OF WAY ASSOCIATION | $800 |
| BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 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 11% of The Evans Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 20%.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 94 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 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 PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AQUATIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
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: 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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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