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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…

$103k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

4
’17
7
’18
9
’19
7
’20
11
’21
8
’22
4
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Education$4.1MHealth$94kHuman Services$92kHousing & Shelter$70kCrime & Legal$61kArts & Culture$55kEnvironment$54kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $78,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$13,500
ACCESS COLLEGE FUND$10,000
FOR KIDS$10,000
VA LEGAL AID SOCIETY$10,000
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
WESTERN TIDWTR FREE CLINIC$10,000
NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIAN$8,500
YMCA$6,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA: $20k → 12%YMCA: $18k → 12%YMCA: $16k → 12%YMCA: $11k → 12%YMCA: $11k → 12%YMCA: $10k → 12%YMCA: $6k → 12%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.
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.
$622k · 9 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$622k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+2%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads
    7× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +23%
  • FI
    FORKIDS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • PD
    PAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -42%
  • FO
    FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • SL
    SUFFOLK LITERACY COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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.

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Portsmouth Reads
Education
2
Southampton County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
3
Suffolk Community College Foundationinc

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…

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4
Suffolk Education Foundation

Is to support suffolk public schools by connecting the community's talents and resources to expand educational opportunities for students and staff.

Education
5
Hope for Suffolk

We exist to create environments and opportunities in which holistic transformation takes place through relationships, experiences, and reflection.

Community Improvement
6
Suffolk University

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…

Education
7
Suffolk Festivals Inc

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…

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8
Sentara Health

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.

Health
9
Sentara Medical Group

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…

Health
10
Coalition Against Poverty in Suffolk Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUFFOLK FOUNDATION: $3,943,402 · PhilanthropySUFFOLK FOUNDATION+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SALVATION ARMY: $110,000 · OtherPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,732 · OtherSUFFOLK LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $8,000 · OtherNANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $53,500 · OtherSuffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $23,300 · OtherFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherSUFFOLK ART LEAGUE: $61,000 · Arts & CultureSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $54,500 · Arts & CultureSUFFOLK PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INCORPORATED: $104,000 · HealthYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $92,000 · Human ServicesFORKIDS INC: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $54,000 · Education
Philanthropy$3,951,402Other$225,032Arts & Culture$115,500Health$104,000Human Services$92,000Housing & Shelter$70,000Education$54,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUFFOLK FOUNDATION: $3,943,402 over 1y, 56% of budgetSUFFOLK PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INCORPORATED: $104,000 over 7y, 34% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $92,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUFFOLK ART LEAGUE: $61,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $54,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $53,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetSuffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $23,300 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,732 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Obici Healthcare Foun…Suffolk FoundationThe Blocker FoundationTownebank FoundationMary C Henninger Hadd…Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthDominion Energy Chari…Birdsong Trust FundBirdsong Charitable F…The Southeast Virgini…Charities Aid Foundat…
Obici Healthcare Foundation IncVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Action Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Action Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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