· Private foundation
Bm Stanton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON YOUTH SHELTERS | $37,288 |
| VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESAPEAKE | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SENTARA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH BILLFISH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOWN CENTER KIWANIS | $500 |
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 (FY19–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +15%
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +20%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +359%
Funded once
- BBCASone grant, 2020 · $6k
- BFBEACH FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ODOLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ODU WOMENS GOLF DONATION PER ADVISORY COMMone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The organization's purpose is to promote excellence in teaching science and to provide communication amoung science teachers in Virginia.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, 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
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
To inspire each student to approach learning with curiosity and creativity, pursue excellence, and act with integrity-so each can make our community and world a better place.
To celebrate the spirit of Virginia Beach through authentic experiences that foster joy, community, and connection for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Foundation and the most unlike its peers is I Need a Lighthouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIDNOW ↗
- Who funds Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM HOYT VB ↗
- Who funds I NEED A LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation ↗
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Sentara Health · C Barker Champions for Charity Inc · Townebank Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Southern Bank 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 Bm Stanton Foundation 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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