The John D Evans Foundation
Dallas, TX · EIN 54-1685616. Reported 132 grants totalling $2,728,037 to 62 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The John D Evans Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $104 and the largest $60,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The South Florida Symphony | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $260,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| US Department of State Diplomatic Reception Rooms | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| US Department of State | Washington, DC | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sphinx Organization | Detroit, MI | $176,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ama Foundation | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Clinic of Florida | Weston, FL | $140,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The William J Clinton Fdn | Little Rock, AR | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ted Conferences New York | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The William J Clinton Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Cable Center | Denver, CO | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Walter Kaitz Foundation | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| US Department of State - Renovations Diplomatic Reception Rooms | Washington, DC | $53,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ted Conferences New | New York, NY | $50,623 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ahf-Florida AIDS Walk | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| AIDS Healthcare Fdn | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equality Florida | St Petersburg, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equality Florida Institute Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Florida AIDS Action | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Laguna Beach Community Clinic | Laguna Beach, CA | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Protect Democracy | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry | Sag Harbor, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc | Sag Harbor, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Athlete Ally Inc | Annadale, NJ | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ncta Foundation | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Foundation Inc | Adelphi, MD | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sag Harbor Cinema Arts | Sag Harbor, NY | $35,508 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Broadway Cares | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sag Harbor Volunteer Fire Department | Sag Harbor, NY | $30,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Outright Action International | New York, NY | $25,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sunshine Social Services | Wilton Manors, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps | Sag Harbor, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Scte Foundation | Exton, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Syndeo Institute at the Cable Cen | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Falmouth, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Outright Action Intnl | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Athlete Ally Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broadway Caresequity Fight AIDS | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dream Project | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Renand Foundation | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Renard Foundation | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glaad | Los Angeles, CA | $6,545 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mystic Seaport Museum | Mystic, CT | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Black Theater Coalition | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New York Piano Society | Long Island, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gill Foundation | Denver, CO | $2,575 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Event Outgiving Miatysons | Denver, CO | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metropolitan Opera New | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Moving Windmills Project | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ali Forney Center | New York, NY | $1,039 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wikimedia Foundation USA | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum | New York, NY | $985 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Food for Lgbtq Nyc Kids | New York, NY | $523 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $275 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer Care | Chicago, IL | $230 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metropolitian Museum | New York, NY | $210 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY | $165 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grammarlycom | San Francisco, CA | $144 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY | $140 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| AIDS Walk New York | New York, NY | $115 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| AIDS Walk Nc Rain | Charlotte, NC | $106 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA | $104 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
30 of 62 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The South Florida Symphony
SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS - The William J Clinton Fdn
SUPPORT CLINTON FDN AND CGI - Ama Foundation
GRANT FOR LGBTQ CONVENING - Equality Florida Institute Inc
SUPPORT EQUALITY FLORIDA'S - Cleveland Clinic of Florida
GRANT FOR LGBTQ RESIDENCE - Outright Action International
LGBT GLOBAL UN INITIATIVES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 30 | $512,240 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 28 | $594,949 | $12,627 |
| 2022 | 26 | $542,146 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $484,523 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $594,179 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
22% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The John D Evans Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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