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C Barker Champions for Charity Inc
Gifts to charitable community service organizations
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.
The 6 grants below total $109,146 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,896 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,750 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC | $42,500 |
| MERCEDES-BENZ OF VIRGINIA BEACH | $19,646 |
| ELS FOR AUTISM | $17,000 |
| THE VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEVACF | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- VHVB HOME NOW INC3× · 2017–2021 · $197k · revenue +62%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +359%
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters5× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- FOFROM ONE HAND TO ANOTHERone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TNTHE NORFOLK ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -1%
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +70%
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 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.
The evms academic physicians and surgeons health services foundation (the "foundation") exists to further the mission and goals of the eastern virginia medical school ("evms"), a school of medicine within the virginia health sciencces at…
It is the mission of the vba education foundation to advance personal financial literacy across the commonwealth of virginia.
The vims foundation advises and assists the william & mary batten school of coastal & marine sciences and the virginia institute of marine science, promotes philanthropy to and stewards the philanthropic resources of the vims foundation,…
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…
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…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To build character and shape lives through the game of basketball.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Townebank Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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 VB HOME NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Begin Again Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds I NEED A LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds GNBL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VB JAYCEES CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEALKIDS ↗
- Who funds SUGAR PLUM INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH POLICEMENS BENEFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
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 · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Franklin Family Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · Bm Stanton Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Richard Olivieri Family Foundation · The Windward Foundation · The Ruffin Family Foundation · The Charity Bowl Football Game
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 C Barker Champions for Charity Inc 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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