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EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $847,830 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($797,580). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$366k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$848k
Net assets
$230k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Evans Scholars Foundation - Illinois does

Mission

The Evans Scholars Foundation is a charitable trust that provides full four year tuition and housing college scholarships to deserving caddies. Each scholar house collects chapter dues from its members to cover utilities, supplies, social programs, and special events. The University of Illinois Evans Scholars House is the housing for 146 University of Illinois Evans Scholars students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Expenditures related to utilities, supplies, social programs, and special events related to the Scholar House at the University of Illinois.

    $378,142 spent$365,936 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. None.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. None.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $378,142.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($291k) Expenses 100 ($231k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2022 Revenue 112 ($325k) Expenses 128 ($294k) Net assets 117 ($204k)2023 Revenue 127 ($368k) Expenses 149 ($344k) Net assets 131 ($228k)2024 Revenue 124 ($360k) Expenses 150 ($346k) Net assets 139 ($242k)2025 Revenue 126 ($366k) Expenses 164 ($378k) Net assets 132 ($230k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (126)Expenses (164)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $174k to $204k (+17%).

$174k
$204k
$228k
$242k
$230k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’21
$30k
’22
$24k
’23
$14k
’24
−$12k
’25
7.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

John Kaczkowski

President & CEO

Board chair

Steven Colnitis

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed44444
Joined·+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·1010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $53k → $129k.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 78% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $848k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS?
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $847,830 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($797,580). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $847,830 in grants to EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $797,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing