Virginia · Public charity
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $242,878
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $1.7M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $977k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $1.0M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $663k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $329k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $300k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $282k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access College Foundation | $2,289,448 | 9 | 9% |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation | $689,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Norfolk Collegiate Educational Foundation | $448,300 | 5 | 15% |
| Tidewater Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $320,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Third Option Foundation | $156,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Academy | $122,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Virginia Gentlemen Foundation Inc | $119,500 | 4 | 21% |
| Andros Bonefish Charitable Trust | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vida Valiente Foundation | $86,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Priority Automotive Charities | $85,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 63 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
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About Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation
- How much does Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation give?
- Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $1,725,010, out of $1,763,510 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (7%).
- Who are Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Access College Foundation ($2.3M), Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation ($690k), Norfolk Collegiate Educational Foundation ($448k).
- Does Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, United Way of South Hampton Roads, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation based?
- Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation is based in VA.
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