Maine · Private foundation
William E and Lucretia W 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.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $160k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $160k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $140k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $132k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $71k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $54k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $49k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $49k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westtown School | $91,300 | 8 | n/a |
| The Pinehurst School Foundation | $67,000 | 6 | 45% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $59,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Maine Audubon Society | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Earlham College Inc | $48,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Fcnl Education Fund | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Our Children's Trust | $32,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Mosaic Project | $30,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Lighthawk | $25,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Cope Environmental Center | $24,800 | 8 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation
- How much does William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation give?
- William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $160,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Environment (27%), Civil Rights (14%).
- Who are William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westtown School ($91k), The Pinehurst School Foundation ($67k), American Friends Service Committee ($59k).
- Does William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William E and Lucretia W 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 William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation based?
- William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation is based in ME.
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