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Thomas M Evans Jr Foundation at a glance

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Thomas M Evans Jr 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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$121kEducation$121kRecreation & Sports$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kHealth$36kPhilanthropy$30kEnvironment$5kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$25,000
GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$15,000
HARRY CASHIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL$5,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$2,500
GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION$2,500
GRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$500
FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE CEMETERY$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART: $11k → 10%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $30k → 14%VASSAR COLLEGE: $2k → 9%THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $3k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25k → 14%GUIDES TRUST FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH: $30k → 13%NSCDA TENNESSEE: $1k → 14%AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5k → 15%HARRY CASHIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $25k → 5%BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER: $15k → 11%SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%GRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 11%BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY: $50k → 12%HISTORIC DEERFIELD: $25k → 14%564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $25k → 5%GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%BARD GRADUATE CENTER: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $25k → 5%GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $14k → 11%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $25k → 5%GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $15k → 5%GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $15k → 5%GRAFTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 11%EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 14%ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%WOMENS COMMUNITY CLUB OF GRAFTON VT INC: $1k → 11%GRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 11%GRAFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 11%GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CT
TN
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Thomas M Evans Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in WY; by stated purpose, 29%.

Thomas M Evans Jr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 7 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$276k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +46%
  • GF
    GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +39%
  • GC
    Grace Cottage Foundation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • BM
    BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • HD
    HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • BB
    BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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.

04Its 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.

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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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
3
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
4
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
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President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
6
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
7
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Deerfield Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harry Cashin Memorial Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND OF JACKSON HOLEGRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $49,000 · OtherGRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,000 · OtherGRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETYBUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER: $15,000 · OtherBUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTERSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AMERICAN ART MUSEUMADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART: $11,000 · OtherGrace Cottage Foundation: $10,500 · Other+7 more: $13,000 · OtherALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $55,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA…BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · EducationBURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INCHarry Cashin Memorial Scholarship Fund: $10,000 · EducationHarry Cashin Memorial Scho…+1 more: $500 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN …HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC DEE…564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVE…+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $30,000 · PhilanthropySpringfield Hospital Inc: $10,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$269,500Education$115,500Arts & Culture$55,250Philanthropy$30,000Health$25,000Community Improvement$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $49,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGrace Cottage Foundation: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpringfield Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuides Trust Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERSIDE CEMETERY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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 Pollio Family Fou…Ibm International Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Pollio Family Foundation IncVT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pollio Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Friends of the Riverside Cemetery Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 M Evans Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas M Evans Jr 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 28 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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