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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$287kEnvironment$228kCivil Rights$124kPublic Benefit$44kHealth$25kHuman Services$24kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pinehurst School Foundation$21,000
American Friends Service Committee$18,000
Maine Audubon$10,500
American Friends Service Committee$10,000
FCNL Education Fund$10,000
Westtown School$9,000
Earlham College$9,000
Quaker Earthcare Witness$7,000
Our Family Farms$6,000
Cope Environmental Center$6,000
LightHawk$5,500
The Mosaic Project$5,000
The Nature Conservancy of Maine$5,000
Ben Lomond Quaker Center$5,000
Friends of Casco Bay$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Westtown School: $39k → 6%AMERICAN FIENNDS SERVICE CO: $27k → 22%Quaker Earthcare Witness: $7k → 10%FCNL EDUCATION TRUST: $15k → 14%Our Family Farms: $6k → 13%Our Children's Trust: $8k → 15%Cope Environmental Center: $7k → 18%LightHawk: $6k → 17%Chewonki Foundation: $6k → 9%Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $6k → 9%WESTTOWN SCHOOL: $10k → 6%American Friends Service Committee: $18k → 22%FCNL Education Fund: $10k → 14%Our Family Farms: $6k → 13%Cope Environmental Center: $6k → 18%COLLEG OF THE ATLANTIC: $6k → 11%Westtown School: $9k → 6%American Friends Service Committee: $16k → 22%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $23k → 10%FCNL Education Fund: $9k → 14%Maine Audubon: $11k → 7%Westtown School: $9k → 6%AMERICAN FIENNDS SERVICE CO: $16k → 22%FCNL EDUCATION FUND: $7k → 14%MAINE AUDOBON: $10k → 7%Westtown School: $8k → 6%American Friends Service Committee: $11k → 22%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE CO: $9k → 10%Pinehurst School Foundation: $21k → 13%MAINE AUDUBON: $10k → 7%Westtown School: $7k → 6%American Friends Service Committee: $10k → 22%Pinehurst School Foundation: $16k → 13%Maine Audubon: $10k → 7%Westtown School: $7k → 6%AMERICAN FIENNDS SERVICE CO: $10k → 22%PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11k → 13%Schoodic Institute: $6k → 11%WESTTOWN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $6k → 6%THE MOSAIC PROJECT: $6k → 10%PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%Greensprings Fire and Rescue: $6k → 13%Earlham College: $9k → 18%Earlham College: $8k → 18%EARHAM COLLEGE: $8k → 18%EARHAM COLLEGE: $7k → 18%Earlham College: $6k → 18%Inclusion Works: $6k → 13%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

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CA
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DC
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 6% of William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$750k · 30 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
18

Total granted

$750k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EnvironmentEducationMembership BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TP
    THE PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +327% · 45% of their budget
  • MA
    Maine Audubon Society
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • FCNL EDUCATION FUND
    7× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • FE
    FCNL EDUCATION TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
2
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
3
Ecology Education Inc

The Ecology School inspires stewardship of and connection to the natural world through experiential learning in ecology, conservation, farming, and sustainability.

Environment
4
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
5
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
6
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
7
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
9
Ecology Learning Center

The mission of the ecology learning center is to deeply root students in Maine's ecological & cultural landscapes, foster authentic real-world learning through mentorship & craft, and cultivate compassionate and resilient leaders prepared…

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10
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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11
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
12
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Mountain Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Our Family Farms. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 51 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)
27/28
Grantees still filing
9/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTTOWN SCHOOL: $91,300 · OtherWESTTOWN SCHOOLAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $59,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEAMERICAN FIENNDS SERVICE CO: $53,000 · OtherAMERICAN FIENNDS SERVICE COCOPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $24,800 · OtherCOPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $23,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $22,750 · OtherINCLUSION WORKS: $20,650 · OtherBen Lomond Quaker Center: $19,000 · OtherSierra Friends Center: $18,750 · OtherQuaker Earthcare Witness: $18,000 · OtherLightHawk: $17,350 · OtherFCNL EDUCATION TRUST: $17,000 · Other+19 more: $77,000 · Other+19 moreMaine Audubon Society: $50,000 · EnvironmentMaine Audubon SocietyOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $32,400 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S TRUSTLIGHTHAWK: $25,500 · EnvironmentLIGHTHAWKChewonki Foundation Inc: $24,350 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundation IncKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $10,750 · EnvironmentKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLA…ASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $9,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $7,000 · Environment+5 more: $21,750 · Environment+5 moreTHE PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $67,000 · EducationTHE PINEHURST SCHOO…Earlham College Inc: $48,500 · EducationEarlham College IncTHE MOSAIC PROJECT: $30,450 · EducationTHE MOSAIC PROJECT+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 · Public BenefitOUR FAMILY FARMS: $15,500 · Food & NutritionGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $9,500 · Public Safety & DisasterBALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC: $5,000 · Religion
Other$461,600Environment$180,750Education$147,950Public Benefit$40,000Food & Nutrition$15,500Public Safety & Disaster$9,500Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $48,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $32,400 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MOSAIC PROJECT: $30,450 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHAWK: $25,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $24,800 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $24,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $22,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSION WORKS: $20,650 over 5y, 50% of budgetQuaker Earthcare Witness: $18,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetOUR FAMILY FARMS: $15,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $10,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $9,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $9,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION OF CA: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetROGUE FARM CORPS: $2,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIntegrate Health Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE: $1,300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
  • Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHAWK ↗
  • Who funds COPE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSION WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Quaker Earthcare Witness ↗
  • Who funds OUR FAMILY FARMS ↗
  • Who funds KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION OF CA ↗

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 William Penn FoundationPA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William E and Lucretia W Evans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Rogue Farm Corps: 91% of income from government
  • Greensprings Fire and Rescue: 18% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 51 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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