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Thomas G Evans Foundation at a glance

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Thomas G 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.

$540k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$50,000
UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY$50,000
THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC$50,000
MARK MORRIS DANCE CENTER$50,000
WYOMING SEMINARY$50,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$20,000
BOSTON BALLET$20,000
JACOB'S PILLOW$20,000
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL$20,000
MOOSIC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$18,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SALVATION ARMY: $50k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50k → 8%JACOB'S PILLOW: $20k → 12%NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY: $20k → 16%MOOSIC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $18k → 13%WYOMING SEMINARY: $50k → 15%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA: $20k → 17%MARK MORRIS DANCE CENTER: $50k → 20%THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $50k → 12%FEEDING AMERICA: $50k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $20k → 8%BOSTON BALLET: $20k → 16%MOOSIC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 13%UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY: $50k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 16%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 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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Northeastern University
Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
2/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolo…WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATOR…The Trustees of Princeton University: $50,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Universit…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $20,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSICMARK MORRIS DANCE CENTER: $50,000 · OtherMARK MORRIS DANCE CENTERTHE SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMOOSIC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherMOOSIC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON EARLY…BOSTON BALLET INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLE…JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILL…Feeding America: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN TH…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · International
Education$170,000Other$140,000Arts & Culture$60,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Philanthropy$50,000International$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas G Evans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas G Evans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Thomas G Evans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas G 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.

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 15 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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