· Private foundation
Bm Stanton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 RESCUE SQUAD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESAPEAKE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| SENTARA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH BILLFISH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOWN CENTER KIWANIS | $500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- RMRANDOLPH- MACON COLLEGE- JOSEPH P VAUGH ENDOWED FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds I NEED A LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds TEAM HOYT VB ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bm Stanton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bm Stanton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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