· Public charity
Business Consortium for Arts Support
To strengthen major business and foundation support for arts and cultural organizations of south hampton roads.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $574,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $647,513 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,513 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $406k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $83,850 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $83,850 |
| VIRGINIA SYMPHONY | $83,850 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $83,850 |
| VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY | $70,950 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $45,150 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC | $40,000 |
| HERMITAGE MUSEUM | $15,500 |
| HURRAH PLAYERS | $12,000 |
| SYMPHONICITY | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATER | $10,000 |
| TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH | $9,000 |
| TIDEWATER WINDS | $8,000 |
| D'ART CENTER | $6,500 |
| VIRGINIA CHORALE | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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.
38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $781k · revenue +18%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $781k · revenue +113%
- TCTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TGTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +23%
- BVBALLET VIRGINIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +63%
- SASPECIALLY ADAPTED RESOURCE CLUBSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +327%
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.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.
Believing that music has the power to inspire, the fredericksburg symphony will fulfill this mission by enriching the community with live music. the symphony brings performances, educational programs, and community engagement initiatives…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The Virginia Beach Chorale is recognized as one of southeastern Virginias longest- tenured performing arts ensemble
to support the performance and understanding of the vocal art song repertoire through presenting a season of vocal recitals, commissioning new repertoire and performances in schools and other local venues.
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
Performs classical music for the community
The theatre and the arts center offer a series of concerts and exhibitions and workshops by performers and artists. the purpose of the theatre is to promote the arts to the citizens of greater hampton roads virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Virginia Arts Festival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empowerment Center for Children Youth and Families. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 42 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 VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACH ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE TIDEWATER WINDS ↗
- Who funds TODD ROSENLIEB DANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Chorale ↗
- Who funds D'ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHILDRENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds ISLE OF WIGHT ARTS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds RAWLS MUSEUM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN NORFOLK FUND ↗
- Who funds ViBe District Virginia Beach ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds I SHERMAN GREEN CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Generic Theater of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF NORFOLK ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN SOUTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CONCERTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FELDMAN CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE WRITERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDLER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC STEEL ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BALLET VIRGINIA ↗
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 · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Sentara Health · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Lafayette River Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation · Curtis Family 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 Business Consortium for Arts Support 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.