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Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc

To promote and support health, care and charitable works of the bernardine sisters of the third order of st.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.8MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$839kPhilanthropy$430kHousing & Shelter$408kEducation$354kCrime & Legal$265kCommunity Improvement$242kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $838,229, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,058,548 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $220,319 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
$21,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SERVE THE CITY: $15k → 6%GLOUCESTER HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN VIRGINIA: $42k → 10%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $110k → 14%SERVE THE CITY: $10k → 6%GLOUCESTER HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN VIRGINIA: $11k → 10%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $100k → 14%GREATER HAMPTON ROADS DIAPER BANK: $15k → 9%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $62k → 14%PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING: $150k → 17%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $56k → 14%RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $16k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 9%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%EZER INITIATIVE: $15k → 20%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $31k → 14%PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 17%RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 9%FREEKIND: $31k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS: $22k → 17%RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $29k → 14%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $27k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HR: $17k → 17%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%FREEKIND: $25k → 14%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%VIRGINIA BEACH JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $16k → 14%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS: $21k → 17%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS: $14k → 17%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS: $12k → 17%PEAKE CHILDHOOD CENTER: $26k → 14%ACCESS VIRGINIA: $26k → 17%ACCESS VIRGINIA: $15k → 17%ACCESS VIRGINIA: $11k → 17%PEAKE CHILDHOOD CENTER: $16k → 14%ALTERNATIVES INC: $15k → 14%THRIVE PENINSULA: $30k → 17%THRIVE PENINSULA: $25k → 17%THRIVE PENINSULA: $15k → 17%YMCA OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 50%.

Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 37 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
18

Total granted

$6.6M
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +37%
  • N
    NETWORKPENINSULA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +59% · 34% of their budget
  • CC
    Commonwealth Catholic Charities
    8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAUREL SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • AP
    ACCESS PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • VL
    VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
2
Safe Harbor

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.

Human Services
3
Samaritan House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
5
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
6
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 been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and…

Human Services
7
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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
8
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
9
SeniorNavigatorcom

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,…

Community Improvement
10
The Planning Council

To identify community needs, connect people with solutions and improve lives.

Human Services
11
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.

—
12
Prestera Center for Mental Health Services Inc

To provide behavioral health care services in a united effort dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERNARDINE SISTER OF THE THIRD: $2,840,340 · OtherBERNARDINE SISTER OF THE THIRDMary Immaculate Hospital: $266,060 · OtherMary Immaculate HospitalTRANSITIONS FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES: $165,000 · Other+19 more: $483,108 · Other+19 moreCENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $436,742 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHILD AND FAM…Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $185,200 · Human ServicesCommonwealth Catholic Ch…PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA AGENCY ON AGIN…FREEKIND: $155,895 · Human ServicesFREEKINDTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $80,100 · Human ServicesTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERL…LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $71,638 · Human ServicesRURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $70,599 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC: $53,196 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $52,700 · Human ServicesAccess Virginia: $51,900 · Human Services+9 more: $168,866 · Human Services+9 moreUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula: $430,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way o…NETWORKPENINSULA: $227,284 · PhilanthropyNETWORKPENIN…POSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC: $77,360 · PhilanthropyPOSTPARTUM S…+1 more: $25,050 · PhilanthropyNATASHA HOUSE INC: $116,739 · Housing & ShelterMENCHVILLE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $111,898 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAMPTON ROADS: $93,604 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULA AND GREATER WILLIAMSBURG: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRSTSPARK INC: $121,461 · EducationChild Development Resources: $77,657 · EducationRITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $45,995 · EducationCommunities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $16,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FUTURES FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $68,230 · HealthEDMARC INC: $66,173 · HealthGLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC: $38,149 · HealthCENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS: $35,478 · HealthCARE NET RESOURCE PREGNANCY CENTERS INC: $25,375 · HealthSOUNDSCAPES INC: $76,094 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC: $16,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,754,508Human Services$1,501,836Philanthropy$759,694Housing & Shelter$337,241Education$261,613Health$233,405Arts & Culture$92,594

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $436,742 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula: $430,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMary Immaculate Hospital: $266,060 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORKPENINSULA: $227,284 over 9y, 34% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $185,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $175,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTRANSITIONS FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES: $165,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFREEKIND: $155,895 over 5y, 19% of budgetFIRSTSPARK INC: $121,461 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNATASHA HOUSE INC: $116,739 over 6y, 13% of budgetMENCHVILLE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $111,898 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAMPTON ROADS: $93,604 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $80,100 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetChild Development Resources: $77,657 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC: $77,360 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSOUNDSCAPES INC: $76,094 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $71,638 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $70,599 over 5y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY FUTURES FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $68,230 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEDMARC INC: $66,173 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetVERSABILITY RESOURCES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC: $53,196 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $52,700 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAccess Virginia: $51,900 over 3y, 19% of budgetRITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $45,995 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE INC: $40,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DEGOOD FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetGLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC: $38,149 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $38,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS: $35,478 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetINSIGHT ENTERPRISES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSERVE THE CITY PENINSULA: $33,569 over 3y, 21% of budgetCARE NET RESOURCE PREGNANCY CENTERS INC: $25,375 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $25,050 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLAUREL SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetACCESS PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST: $22,285 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC: $21,187 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Hampton Roads: $16,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER HAMPTON ROADS DIAPER BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY KNIGHTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetC WALDO SCOTT CENTER FOR HOPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Ezer Initiative: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEWPORT NEWS GREEN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Langley for Families …Dominion Energy Chari…Sentara HealthUnited Way of the Vir…Peninsula Community F…The Blocker FoundationHampton Roads Communi…Petters Family Founda…United Way of South H…The Community Foundat…Community Knights IncTownebank Foundation
Langley for Families - the Foundation of LfcuVA76× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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