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EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON

EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($35,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$787k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$475k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Evmark Dba Downtown Evanston does

Mission

Evmark d/b/a/ downtown evanston is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation that provides marketing, special events, placemaking, and management services to the downtown evanston business district. The overall mission of the organization is to market, maintain, develop, and improve the vitality of the local economy and quality of life within the designated special service area (ssa) boundaries

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Evmark d/b/a/ downtown evanston is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation that provides marketing, special events, placemaking, and management services to the downtown evanston business district. The overall mission of the organization is to market, maintain, develop, and improve the vitality of the local economy and quality of life within the designated special service area (ssa) boundaries.

    $733,685 spent$733,560 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $733,685.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($570k) Expenses 100 ($620k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2020 Revenue 120 ($686k) Expenses 105 ($650k) Net assets 120 ($215k)2021 Revenue 126 ($717k) Expenses 112 ($694k) Net assets 133 ($239k)2022 Revenue 125 ($715k) Expenses 116 ($720k) Net assets 130 ($233k)2023 Revenue 125 ($714k) Expenses 90 ($558k) Net assets 217 ($389k)2024 Revenue 138 ($787k) Expenses 113 ($701k) Net assets 264 ($475k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (113)Net assets (264)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $232k to $478k (+105%).

$232k
$478k
$568k
$531k
$531k
$494k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$50k
’19
$36k
’20
$23k
’21
−$5k
’22
$156k
’23
$86k
’24
8.2
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

Andrew Vick

Executive director

Board chair

Nathan Kostant

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed211211172125
Joined·+1+0+11+9+11
No longer listed·101557
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
$36k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON’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.

Where its funders are

100% of EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON: 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 EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON?
EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being Northwestern University ($35,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,500 in grants to EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON.
Who is the largest funder of EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON?
Northwestern University is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVMARK DBA DOWNTOWN EVANSTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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