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EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 36-3466802 EVANSTON, IL

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Revenue 2024
$7,573,677
Expenses 2024
$5,361,606

Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31Z
Classification
1000
Street
500 DAVIS ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MOBILIZES COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO DRIVE SYSTEMIC SOCIAL CHANGE AND BUILD A THRIVING, RESILIENT EVANSTON. WE ACHIEVE THIS BY: INVESTING IN COMMUNITY WITH A LONG-TERM AND SUSTAINABLE PERSPECTIVE, EMPOWERING LEADERS TO FOSTER INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION, AND PRIORITIZING COMMUNITY VOICE AND CHOICE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MOBILIZES COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO DRIVE SYSTEMIC SOCIAL CHANGE AND BUILD A THRIVING, RESILIENT EVANSTON.

  • THROUGH ITS GRANTMAKING THE FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTES RESOURCES THROUGH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR PUBLIC GOOD. SINCE 2020 WE'VE ADAPTED GRANTMAKING TO MEET COMMUNITY NEED, INCLUDING ADDING OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT COLLECTIVE AND ENDURING INITIATIVES AND PROVIDING OPERATING SUPPORT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO COMMUNITY TO KEEP OUR GRANTMAKING FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING COMMUNITY PRIORITIES.

    Expenses $1,758,425 · Grants $1,259,309

  • THE FOUNDATION FOSTERS PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY AND BUILDS ENDOWED FUNDS TO SUSTAIN OUR COMMUNITY; IT ALSO ADMINISTERS DONOR-ADVISED AND OTHER NON-ENDOWED FUNDS TO BUILD AND DISTRIBUTE RESOURCES FOR MORE IMMEDIATE NEEDS.

    Expenses $1,530,051 · Grants $1,150,045

  • THE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS AN EMPOWERED, ENGAGED COMMUNITY THAT COLLABORATES ACROSS SECTORS TO DEFINE PROBLEMS AND DEVELOP SOLUTIONS.

    Expenses $697,703 · Grants $646,856

  • THE FOUNDATION STRENGTHENS EVANSTON'S NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS, DELIVERS WORKSHOPS FOR NONPROFITS, RUNS OUR LEADERSHIP EVANSTON PROGRAM, AND PROMOTES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

    Expenses $480,204 · Revenue $25,615

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Bryant Wallace

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura-Min Proctor

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Feldman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sharon Robinson

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alli Henry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anne Vela-Wagner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Hiller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Betty Cohns

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bob Easter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Rothwell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cindy Castro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Graham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Witherspoon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry Singer

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lee Hart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Linda Gerber

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marcel Sallis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Brenner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sandeep Ghaey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Gordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cynthia Dominguez

    COO as of 10/24

    Total calculated
    $140,174
    From this org
    $131,606
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,568
    Hours/week
    40

  • Karli Butler

    VP Com Leadership & Inv as of 8/24

    Total calculated
    $104,946
    From this org
    $91,813
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,133
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kimberly Holmes-Ross

    Executive Director EC2C as of 3/24

    Total calculated
    $140,765
    From this org
    $130,705
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,060
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rebecca Cacayuran

    VP Com Investment thru 6/24

    Total calculated
    $72,252
    From this org
    $62,479
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,773
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,573,677
    Expenses
    $5,361,606
    Contributions
    $5,436,873
    Grants paid
    $3,056,210
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,514,255
    Expenses
    $4,438,677
    Contributions
    $4,180,844
    Grants paid
    $2,343,776
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,787,039
    Expenses
    $4,435,311
    Contributions
    $3,399,348
    Grants paid
    $2,609,702

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,518,547
    Expenses
    $4,513,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,360,058

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,345,048
    Expenses
    $7,554,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,831,110

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,106,518
    Expenses
    $3,117,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,499,708

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,204,345
    Expenses
    $2,881,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,652,086

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,027,602
    Expenses
    $2,384,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,261,309

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,369,736
    Expenses
    $2,270,834
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,064,645

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,688,177
    Expenses
    $2,847,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,299,111

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,941,672
    Expenses
    $2,901,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,390,998

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,854,708
    Expenses
    $2,547,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,320,311

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • EVANSTON CRADLE TO CAREER LLC

    Youth Success · IL · income $520,940 · assets $491,876

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.