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Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation

To provide funds to organizations dedicated to the support and advanced education of our youth;to promote viticulture and oenology in hampton roads; to promote medical research.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$243k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$4.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$471kHuman Services$273kAnimals$208kRecreation & Sports$181kFood & Nutrition$73kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $1,725,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,763,510 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,500 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $547k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$242,878
TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$200,000
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$200,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$146,000
ANDROS BONEFISH CHARITABLE TRUST$100,000
VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION$73,000
VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION$66,000
EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL$59,000
SENTARA BROCK CANCER CENTER$50,000
PRIORITY AUTOMOTIVE CHARITIES$45,000
ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION$40,000
FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN TIDEWATER$40,000
ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$40,000
UNC - ADAMS SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY$35,000
AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $146k → 6%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $30k → 17%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $15k → 17%ALICE'S KIDS: $6k → 6%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $28k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 37 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$5.4M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • AC
    ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +95%
  • EV
    Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $690k · revenue +56%
  • TO
    THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $156k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTERN SHORE CHAPEL
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • OD
    OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +150%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property 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…

Health
2
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
3
Vscpa Educational Foundation Inc

Graduate scholarships, grants and award/recognition programs.

Education
4
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn

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,…

Education
5
Cape Henry Collegiate School Students' Assistance Foundation Inc

The purpose of the chcs students' assistance foundation is to provide need-based financial aid to impoverished students' attending cape henry collegiate school. funding for the foundation is dependent upon donations and upon proceeds…

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6
The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education
7
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
8
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
9
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

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10
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.

Education
11
Norfolk State University Research and Innovation Foundation

To provide brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.

Community Improvement
12
Virginia Peninsula Community College Educational Foundation

The virginia peninsula community college educational foundation is a private,non-profit, tax exempt organization dedicated to advancing and financially supporting educational excellence at virginia peninsula community college. it also…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mcwaters Family 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyResidential Support ServicesRegional Business & Communi…Animal Rescue & WelfareMilitary and Veteran SupportFaith-Based Ministry Organi…Community Safety Net Servic…Family Philanthropic Founda…Land and Ecosystem Conserva…Community Health CentersYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr11%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr15%48%35–55yr11%4%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
14%
2,212/16,028

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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 69 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
30/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $2,289,448 · EducationACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONEastern Virginia Medical School Foundation — $689,800 · EducationEastern Virginia Medical School FoundationCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY — $122,500 · Education+10 more — $285,500 · Education+10 moreHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,110,300 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUN…NORFOLK COLLEGIATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $448,300 · PhilanthropyNORFOLK COLLEGIATE EDUCATION…Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation — $65,552 · Philanthropy+7 more — $168,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 · OtherTIDEWATER COMMUNI…ANDROS BONEFISH CHARITABLE TRUST — $100,000 · OtherANDROS BONEFISH C…SAINT MATTHEWS SCHOOL — $85,000 · OtherSAINT MATTHEWS SC…PRIORITY AUTOMOTIVE CHARITIES — $85,000 · OtherPRIORITY AUTOMOTI…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $71,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NOR…EASTERN SHORE CHAPEL - CHAPEL PANTRY — $45,500 · OtherCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $42,000 · Other+22 more — $326,800 · Other+22 moreVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC — $119,500 · HealthFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC — $60,000 · HealthSENTARA HEALTH — $50,000 · HealthMAVERICK LEARNING CENTER INC — $35,600 · HealthA CURE FOR ROBERT INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $12,000 · HealthTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $156,000 · Human ServicesELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION — $67,500 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesBegin Again Foundation — $35,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsJim White Community Fitness Foundation — $5,500 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA — $26,300 · AnimalsNORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $16,000 · Animals
Education$3,387,248Philanthropy$1,792,152Other$1,075,300Health$312,600Human Services$309,000Recreation & Sports$140,500Animals$42,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $2,289,448 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,110,300 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetEastern Virginia Medical School Foundation — $689,800 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetNORFOLK COLLEGIATE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $448,300 over 5y, 15% of budgetTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $156,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY — $122,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC — $119,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetVida Valiente Foundation — $86,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC — $72,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetVirginia Beach Billfish Foundation — $65,552 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME — $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANCHOR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $49,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $42,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAVERICK LEARNING CENTER INC — $35,600 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBegin Again Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED — $34,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMBAT WOUNDED COALITION INC — $32,300 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA — $26,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMANI US INC — $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED ARCHEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetTHE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetNORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBroadwater Academy Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANN & RICHARD GRACE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetD'ART CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarry-Robinson Schools of Norfolk — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORKIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $9,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Tidewater Jewish Foun…Franklin Family Found…Sentara HealthTownebank FoundationThe Charity Bowl Foot…Dominion Energy Chari…The Townsend Family F…Patricia and Douglas …The Landmark Foundati…The Blocker Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA44.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Franklin Family Foundation · Sentara Health · Townebank Foundation · The Charity Bowl Football Game · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Townsend Family Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker 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 Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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