How much did BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k17 grants · $300k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $365k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants

BERNARDINE SISTER OF THE THIRD$364,925
UNITED WAY OF THE VA PENINSULA$200,000
MARY IMMACULATE HOSPITAL$33,000
FREEKIND$30,895
NETWORK PENINSULA$30,784
FAITH RECOVERY$30,750
THRIVE PENINSULA$30,000
LITERACY FOR LIFE$29,495
LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS$14,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN VIRGINIA$11,200
TRANSITIONS FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICE$10,000
ECHO FAMILY CARE PARTNERS$10,000
HELP INC$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF THE VA PENINSULA$10,000
RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $987k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.3M · 33 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+31%

Still filing today

91%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UW
UNITED WAY OF THE VA PENINSULA
2× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +14%
CF
CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
7× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +32%
NP
NETWORK PENINSULA
7× · 2018–2024 · $202k · revenue +59% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +400%
YV
YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HRgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +491%
VL
VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Peninsula Institute for Community

Provide high quality, comprehensive, primary health care services to virginia residents living in hampton roads regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Virginia Center for Inclusive

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

Help and Emergency Response

To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and portsmouth,…

Human Services

People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

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Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

Virginia Community Action

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services

Central Virginia Housing Coalition

Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling and financial assistance.

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Delmarva Community Services Inc

To provide residential, vocational, respite, adult day care, senior, and transportation services to individuals with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a disability.

Health

Ability Center of Virginia

Service and support for people with disabilities

Health

Virginia Community Voice Inc

To equip neighbors in marginalized communities to realize their vision for their community and to prepare institutions to respond effectively.

Community Improvement

Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care Inc

Individual and family counseling

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transitions Family Violence Services and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/52

the rest of the field

14%

389/2,845

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/48

Grantees still filing

41/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,088,974Human Services$1,002,198Philanthropy$654,644Education$261,613Housing & Shelter$261,011Health$182,360Arts & Culture$71,094

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Langley for Families -VA61× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Langley for Families - · Sentara Health · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation Of · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Blocker Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Knights Inc · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · Greater Williamsburg Community Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DEGOOD FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823264889 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DEGOOD FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters?

Find your warmest path to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters?

More from the funding graph

BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters?

More from the funding graph