· Public charity
Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc
To promote and support health, care and charitable works of the bernardine sisters of the third order of st.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $838,229 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,058,548 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $220,319 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERNARDINE SISTER OF THE THIRD ORDER OF ST FRANCIS | $193,050 |
| PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $61,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA | $55,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN VIRGINIA | $41,500 |
| MARY IMMACULATE HOSPITAL | $35,100 |
| BON SECOURS HAMPTON ROADS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MENCHVILLE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $34,000 |
| EDMARE HOSPICE FOR CHILDREN | $25,385 |
| NATASHA HOUSE | $25,070 |
| TIDEWATER FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE | $25,050 |
| YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS | $21,500 |
| SOUNDSCAPES | $21,500 |
| VERSABILITY RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| NETWORK PENINSULA | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 50% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +37%
- NNETWORKPENINSULA9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +59% · 34% of their budget
- CCCommonwealth Catholic Charities8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- LSLAUREL SHELTER INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- APACCESS PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +11%
- VLVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and…
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…
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
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
To identify community needs, connect people with solutions and improve lives.
To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.
To provide behavioral health care services in a united effort dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Serve the City Peninsula. 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 32 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Virginia Peninsula ↗
- Who funds Mary Immaculate Hospital ↗
- Who funds NETWORKPENINSULA ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FREEKIND ↗
- Who funds FIRSTSPARK INC ↗
- Who funds NATASHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MENCHVILLE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAMPTON ROADS ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO ↗
- Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FUTURES FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds VERSABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Access Virginia ↗
- Who funds RITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEGOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CARE NET RESOURCE PREGNANCY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · The Blocker Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Petters Family Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Knights Inc · Townebank Foundation
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 organization Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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