Wisconsin · Nonprofit
EVIDENT CHANGE
EVIDENT CHANGE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,437,087 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,905,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Evident Change does
Mission
The organization uses data and research to improve social systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child welfare: the organization provides technical assistance, consulting, training, research, and analytics in support of data-driven, valid, reliable, and useful decision making by practitioners and policymakers to promote the health, safety, and well-being of families and communities.
$10,184,572 spent$15,715,005 earned by the program70% of program spendingJuvenile & criminal justice: the organization provides technical assistance, consulting, training, research, and analytics in support of data-driven, valid, reliable, and useful decision making by practitioners and policymakers to promote innovative alternative to ineffective and costly justice practices and inform policies that support fair, effective, and age-appropriate treatment of youth.
$3,745,710 spent$4,172,030 earned by the program26% of program spendingAdult protective services: the organization provides technical assistance, consulting, training, research, and analytics in support of data-driven, valid, reliable, and useful decision making by practitioners and policymakers to promote the health, safety, and well-being of adults at the highest risk of future system involvement and targeting resources toward those adults who need them most.
$445,709 spent$1,336,419 earned by the program3% of program spendingEducation: the organization provides technical assistance, consulting, training, research, and analytics in support of research projects to answer questions related to the education of students in child welfare and/or justice systems; monitoring student progress in a school or educational program; site-specific implementation of best practices and measurable outcomes in non-traditional school settings; and analysis of factors and characteristics that correlate with student success.
$164,612 spent$397,731 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,540,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $8.5M to $11M (+26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of EVIDENT CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Katherine Park
CEO
Board chair
Mark Soler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $88k → $430k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EVIDENT CHANGE’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
EVIDENT CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 51% · 2019 71% · 2020 56% · 2021 75% · 2022 79% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of EVIDENT CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
EVIDENT CHANGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
EVIDENT CHANGE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding EVIDENT CHANGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.1M on record — $7.2M federal, $4.0M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.5M
- Department of Justice$1.3M
- District of Columbia Courts$360k
- NJ$2.4M
- MA$1.0M
- VT$232k
- DE$175k
- OR$153k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EVIDENT CHANGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVIDENT CHANGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EVIDENT CHANGE?
- EVIDENT CHANGE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,437,087 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,905,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVIDENT CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,437,087 in grants to EVIDENT CHANGE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVIDENT CHANGE?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,905,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVIDENT CHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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