· Private foundation
Birdsong Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM | $100,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SUFFOLK CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ART | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM | $100,000 |
| NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SUFFOLK CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ART | $100,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $100,000 |
| NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM | $50,000 |
| MANA NUTRITION | $30,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SUFFOLK CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ART | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $831k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +65%
- RWRAPPAHANNOCK WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $803k · revenue +68%
- RCRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE3× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- PPPROJECT PEANUT BUTTERone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -45%
- TCTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +36%
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.
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
How this is measured
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 169 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Peanut Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds BIRDSONG TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLQUITTMILLER ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER ↗
- Who funds PEANUT PROUD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MANA NUTRITIVE AID PRODUCTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds STAR COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · The Pruden Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Blocker Foundation · Birdsong Trust Fund · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Goode Family Foundation · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Birdsong Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birdsong Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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