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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,725,010, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,763,510 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$40,000
ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION$40,000
FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN TIDEWATER$40,000
UNC - ADAMS SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY$35,000
AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 17% of Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

+24%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • OD
    OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +150%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
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
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

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

Education
9
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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10
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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11
Vscpa Educational Foundation Inc

Undergraduate and graduate scholarships, grants and award/recognition programs.

Education
12
Virginia Foundation for Ld Students

The virginia foundation for ld students was established to serve students with financial need whose lives would be transformed by an individualized education. students supported by this foundation come from a wide range of socioeconomic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
30/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PRIORITY AUTOMOTIVE CHARITIES: $85,000 · OtherPRIORITY AUTOMOTI…SAINT MATTHEWS SCHOOL: $85,000 · OtherSAINT MATTHEWS SC…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $71,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NOR…Individual grant recipient: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 1.0% 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, 2.4% 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 budgetTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMANI US INC: $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED ARCHEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetNORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTHE MESOTHELIOMA APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBroadwater Academy Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE 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 budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarry-Robinson Schools of Norfolk: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetD'ART CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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