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The Walter O Evans 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$323k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Walter O Evans Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$5k50%
FY20243$6k67%
FY20233$5k67%
FY20221$5350%
FY20214$23k75%
FY20204$11k75%
FY20193$3k67%
FY20183$4kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$31kArts & Culture$17kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
CT
CO
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Walter O Evans Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yale University$20,0001n/a
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc$10,55020%
Telfair Museum of Art Inc$5,76550%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00020%
The Savannah Book Festival Inc$3,50021%
Senior Citizens Inc$2,00010%
Mountainfilm$1,0001n/a
Coastal Jazz Association Inc$1,00010%
National Association of Black Journalists$1,00010%
Loop It Up Savannah Inc$50010%
Smithsonian Institution$30010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Walter O Evans Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $10,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTelfair Museum of Art Inc: $5,765 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Savannah Book Festival Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Jazz Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Association of Black Journalists: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoop It Up Savannah Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Hodge Foundation IncGA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hodge Foundation Inc · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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How do I get to The Walter O Evans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Walter O 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.

About The Walter O Evans Foundation

How much does The Walter O Evans Foundation give?
The Walter O Evans Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Walter O Evans Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Arts & Culture (30%), Crime & Legal (9%).
Who are The Walter O Evans Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Yale University ($20k), Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ($11k), Telfair Museum of Art Inc ($6k).
Does The Walter O Evans Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Walter O Evans Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Walter O Evans Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hodge Foundation Inc, The Savannah Community Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The Walter O Evans Foundation based?
The Walter O Evans Foundation is based in GA.

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 16 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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