Everhope Foundation

Everhope Foundation is a small, founder-directed private foundation based in Providence, RI (EIN 30-0804328), run by President Frohman Anderson and Secretary Kimberley Anderson — both uncompensated — through fiscal administrator Everwatch Financial (401-421-9900). With $6.12M in assets as of FY2024 but no published website, LOI form, application portal, or RFP, and a database flag of "preselected_only," this is a classic quiet family foundation: it funds organizations its trustees already know rather than soliciting or reviewing unsolicited proposals through any formal channel. Grant seekers should not mistake everhope.org (an unrelated Arkansas children's shelter rebrand) for this foundation's site — no legitimate public-facing presence exists.

The foundation's 25 tracked grants (totaling $332,000) reveal two clear affinities: national climate/environmental advocacy and Rhode Island civic institutions. Its single largest relationship is Our Children's Trust, the youth climate-litigation nonprofit, at $75,000 across two grants — more than any other recipient. International Anti-Poaching Foundation USA follows at $70,000 across two grants. Together with Green Energy Consumers Alliance ($5,000), Renew New England Alliance ($10,000), Material Innovative Initiative ($5,000), and EcoRI News ($4,000), climate/environment work accounts for roughly $169,000, or 51% of all tracked giving. Rhode Island itself draws 10 of the 25 grants (40%), spanning Lincoln School, Bryant University, the RI Business Competition, and Social Enterprise Greenhouse — suggesting a strong hometown-Providence loyalty layered on top of the environmental focus.

For a first-time applicant, a cold proposal is very unlikely to be reviewed. The two realistic entry points are: (1) being a Rhode Island-based civic, education, or entrepreneurship organization with visible local impact, or (2) doing work that sits squarely in climate litigation, clean-energy policy, wildlife protection, or plant-based food-systems advocacy (Good Food Institute, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and Educated Choices Program together received $40,000). Repeat funding to the same six organizations (each receiving 2 grants) signals the trustees favor sustained relationships over one-off gifts, so warm introductions through a current or past grantee are the most credible way in.

Everhope Foundation's giving is small and steady rather than programmatic. The IRS-derived typical_grant_size profile shows a median grant of $10,000, a mean of $8,600, and a range of $2,000 to $25,000 across 15 sized grants — this is a foundation built for modest, single-purpose program support, not capacity-building or capital gifts. Across the fuller 25-grant history captured in our data, total tracked giving is $332,000 at an average of $13,280 per grant, with the two largest relationships (Our Children's Trust at $75,000/2 grants and International Anti-Poaching Foundation USA at $70,000/2 grants) alone accounting for 44% of all dollars distributed.

Annual grants-paid figures from Form 990-PF show a rising-then-plateauing trend: $90,500 (2019) → $122,000 (2020) → $129,000 (2021) → $180,000 (2022, the historical peak) → $152,000 (2023). Total giving (which includes non-grant charitable disbursements) tracked similarly: $117,080 (2019) → $143,632 (2020) → $176,714 (2021) → $208,046 (2022) → $171,439 (2023). FY2024 filings report $521,123 in revenue but grants-paid for that year had not yet posted in available data as of this report.

Asset growth has outpaced giving growth. Total assets moved from $68 (2013, the foundation's founding year) to $255,453 (2014), $2.68M (2019), a dip to $3.03M (2022) after a $2.99M-to-$4.03M swing in 2020-2021, then a sharp jump to $5.43M (2023) on the back of a one-time $2,000,000 contribution, and $6.12M (2024). Payout ratios (grants paid ÷ year-end assets) have run in the 3%-6% band — 5.9% in 2022, 2.8% in 2023 — consistent with a foundation near the IRS 5% minimum-distribution floor rather than an aggressive spender.

Geographically, the 25-grant sample spans seven states: Rhode Island leads with 10 grants, followed by California (4) and Washington DC (4), then New York (2), Colorado (2), Oregon (2), and Georgia (1). By cause, climate/environment work (~$169,000, 51%) dominates, food-systems/animal-welfare advocacy contributes roughly $40,000 (12%), and the remainder splits across Rhode Island civic/education institutions and smaller one-off national grants.

Everhope Foundation sits in a peer cluster of similarly-sized, obscure single-family foundations, all classified under Philanthropy & Grantmaking and clustered tightly around $6.1M in assets. None of these peers — nor Everhope itself — discloses a public website with a formal grants process in our data, reinforcing that this is a common profile for foundations in this asset tier: quiet, trustee-directed, relationship-based giving rather than open competitive grantmaking.

Everhope is distinguishable from this peer group mainly by the specificity of its giving pattern — a documented, repeat-funded climate/environmental portfolio plus a strong Providence, RI civic-loyalty thread — where its peers show no public grant history in our data at all. All six foundations, including Everhope, appear to operate without a formal open application process, so the practical playbook (warm introduction over cold LOI) is likely similar across the whole peer set.

The most recent verifiable activity is administrative: Everhope Foundation's FY2024 Form 990-PF was posted around April 7, 2026, showing $6,119,353 in total assets and $521,123 in revenue, and its FY2023 filing (posted February 13, 2025) disclosed a one-time $2,000,000 contribution that nearly doubled the foundation's asset base within two years. No press releases, leadership changes, or new program announcements were found for 2025-2026 — Frohman Anderson (President) and Kimberley Anderson (Secretary) appear as the unchanged, uncompensated officers across every filing year in our data.

A notable finding for grant seekers: the website URL on file for this foundation, https://everhope.org/, does not belong to this organization. That domain now hosts EverHope Children's Shelter, a Bentonville, Arkansas child-welfare nonprofit that rebranded from Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in January 2026 — a coincidental name collision with an unrelated mission (emergency shelter, foster care, and trauma-informed school programs for children in crisis). Everhope Foundation of Providence, RI does not appear to maintain any discoverable public website, so this naming collision is worth flagging prominently to avoid misdirected outreach.

Because the foundation issues no newsletters, annual reports, or social media, the most reliable signal of its current activity remains its IRS filings and its historical grantee list, both of which point to continuity rather than change: the same climate/environment and Rhode Island civic funding pattern that has held since at least 2019, now backed by a meaningfully larger asset base following the 2023 capital infusion.

There is no formal application process to game here — application_instructions, application_form_url, and opportunities_url are all blank, and the foundation is flagged preselected_only. Treat that as the central strategic fact: Everhope Foundation does not run an open cycle, so time spent drafting an unsolicited LOI is likely wasted unless it is paired with a real relationship.

What to do instead: identify whether your organization overlaps with the trustees' documented interests — climate litigation or environmental advocacy (Our Children's Trust, International Anti-Poaching Foundation USA, Green Energy Consumers Alliance, Renew New England Alliance), plant-based food systems or animal welfare (Good Food Institute, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Educated Choices Program), or Rhode Island civic/education/entrepreneurship work (Lincoln School, Bryant University, RI Business Competition, Social Enterprise Greenhouse, EcoRI News). A strong fit on either axis is a prerequisite; the foundation shows no history of funding outside these lanes despite touching seven states.

Because 6 of its ~17 unique grantees received repeat (2-grant) funding, relationship continuity matters more than a single compelling pitch — a warm introduction from an existing grantee (especially a Rhode Island one, since RI accounts for 40% of all grants) is the most credible path in. Contacting the foundation directly through its fiscal administrator, Everwatch Financial (401-421-9900, 321 S Main St Ste 550, Providence, RI 02903), to ask whether they accept inquiries is a reasonable first step, but expect that this is a closed, trustee-driven foundation rather than one soliciting cold outreach.

Size expectations should stay modest: the median historical grant is $10,000 and the ceiling observed is $25,000-$75,000 (the latter only via two sequential grants to a single flagship relationship, Our Children's Trust). Do not pitch a capital campaign or multi-year six-figure ask — frame any request as discrete, single-purpose program support in the $5,000-$25,000 range, consistent with what has actually been funded. Finally, never reference everhope.org in outreach or assume it is this foundation's site — doing so signals you have not verified your target and could undercut credibility with anyone who happens to check.