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Community Action Coalition
Form 990, part I, line 1, description of organization mission: minority and low-income persons, to increase literacy to further improvement of the environment and land conservation, to promote medical care, health and nutrition and to promote any other educational, scientific and charitable activities either within or without the…
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Community Action Coalition’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Suffolk Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Community Action Coalition named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $78k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 8 grants below total $78,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $103,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $13,500 |
| SUFFOLK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| ACCESS COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| VA LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WESTERN TIDWTR FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIAN | $8,500 |
| YMCA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $92k) 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 +51% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down. Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads7× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +23%
- FIFORKIDS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +10%
- SASUFFOLK ART LEAGUE5× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- PDPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -42%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
- SLSUFFOLK LITERACY COUNCIL INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
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 suffolk community college foundation's mission is to support student access to quality education and vocational skill training by providing scholarships, emergency loans and funding for program development. additionally, the foundation…
Is to support suffolk public schools by connecting the community's talents and resources to expand educational opportunities for students and staff.
We exist to create environments and opportunities in which holistic transformation takes place through relationships, experiences, and reflection.
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
To advance and promote the civic betterment and general welfare of the City of Suffolk and exploit the natural resources and opportunities of the community, its trade and commerce, and its educational life, by providing recreation and…
We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.
See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…
The coalition against poverty in suffolk (caps) states that it's mission is for churches and organizations working together for poverty alleviation and community development in the city of suffolk, virginia. caps accomplishes this in two…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The mission of the Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote awareness of the history and culture of Suffolk and old Nansemond County for the education and enjoyment of present and future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Suffolk Art League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 SUFFOLK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center ↗
- Who funds PAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST ↗
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: Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Suffolk Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Birdsong Trust Fund · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Community Action Coalition 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.