Program Areas

For the past 8 years, the Evans Family Foundation has focused on two core objectives.

Legal aid, reproductive justice, community organizing and training.
Each student receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential.

Grantees

Breakthrough Ministries

A nonprofit organization that partners with people to build connections, develop skills and open doors of opportunity.

Ernestine’s daughter takes a harm reduction and nonjudgmental approach so that people needing services feel compassionate care and support. Their staff, survivors of human trafficking, can better relate to women as they understand the recovery journey. Thus, Ernestine’s daughter can access the targeted population and encourage their entry into substance treatment.

OneGoal

They are a postsecondary access and success organization working with high schools, districts and states to provide high-quality college and career planning services through their Classroom-Based Model and Postsecondary Leadership Series to dramatically increase the percentage of students from low-income communities who earn a postsecondary education.

Edovo

A non-profit organization providing educational, vocational, and rehabilitative curriculums and content to incarcerated people. At Edovo, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive, so fundamental learning should always be available at no cost to the incarcerated Learners we serve. We strive to create rehabilitative-focused correctional environments that lower recidivism, increase safety inside and outside correctional walls, and drive positive outcomes for incarcerated people and their families.

Gyrls in the H.O.O.D

They are the leading Chicagoland nonprofit organization that provides Black gyrls with the reproductive resources, social support services, and sexual health education they need to make informed and responsible choices.

Foster Progress

Empowers Illinois youth currently or formerly in foster care to attain a college degree and transition into adulthood successfully by providing mentorship, advocacy, and educational opportunity.

Healing to Action

Promotes the individual and collective transformation of survivors through an eight week leadership program that builds relationships between survivors, facilitates their collective healing from trauma, and provides training so survivors can organize against structural barriers that perpetuate gender-based violence.