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Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc

To be a catalyst for positive change and enrich the quality of life in the Virgin Islands while preserving our islands unique cultural heritage by inspiring philanthropy, strengthening nonprofits and engaging the community.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 49 grants below total $1,554,571 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,222,026 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,667,455 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $557k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $939k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHNEIDER REG MED CENTER$149,800
MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP$110,000
ST THOMAS SWIMMING ASSOCIATIO$108,023
VIRGIN ISLANDS SURFING FEDERA$84,335
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$65,000
FRIENDS OF THE VI NATIONAL PA$56,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF T$55,603
UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLA$55,319
JFL HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CTR$52,640
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ST CROI$51,000
ISLAND HEALTH AND WELLNESS CE$51,000
QUEEN LOUISE HOME FOR CHILDRE$50,000
WOMENS COALITION OF ST CROI$50,000
HEBREW CONGREGATION$42,150
PATIENT ASSIST VI INC$37,862
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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER ED: $6k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.3M · 73 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
62

Total granted

$9.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+15%

Still filing today

66%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $734k · revenue +165%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $666k · revenue +5%
  • HS
    Humane Society of St Thomas
    6× · 2019–2024 · $632k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue +13%
  • SI
    SEAT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue -26%

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
St Croix Landmarks Society

The operation of two museums, preservation of artifacts, educational programs and a research library and archives where books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and government, church and private records are preserved.

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2
South Caicos Heritage Foundation
Housing & Shelter
3
Virgin Islands Conservation Society Inc

To promote the conservation and wise use of us virgin islands' natural resources by providing a vehicle for local conservation related organizations to build capacity to work together on common territory challenges and opportunities. to…

Environment
4
St John Rescue Inc

St john rescue, inc. is a volunteer organization dedicated to saving lives, providing community education and building a better way of life for the people of st john. stjr provides emergency rescue, medical support, education and shared…

Health
5
Jamaican Association of Rhode Island
Arts & Culture
6
Falconwood Foundation
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7
Common Tides

We provide educational services to interns and youth experiencing disadvantages Our programs consist of marine science sailing and adventure education curriculum that are free for the local youth populations in underserved communities

Environment
8
Virgin Islands Volunteer Advocates for Children Inc

Virgin islands volunteer advocates (viva) for children was created as a legal umbrella to host programs designed to work with children who have been abused or neglected.

Crime & Legal
9
Virgin Islands Healthcare Foundation Inc

To provide various healthcare services, including hemodialysis

Health
10
Global Voyage Inc

Global Voyage is an educational sailing and service giving organization that offers youth and young adults the opportunity to engage with the world of sailing to strengthen their values, skills and knowledge while also giving of themselves…

Youth Development
11
Jamaica Conch Restoration Project Ltd
Animals
12
The Concerned Citizens of St John
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Virgin Islands Partners in Recovery Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eddie Ortiz Annual Three Kings Tradition. 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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersCancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsSenior Support Services
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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%34%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%28%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
8/147
the rest of the field
13%
240,388/1,819,418

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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 147 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/91
Grantees still filing
58/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC — $734,458 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS — $665,888 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDSBEAUTIFUL DREAMERS LTD — $409,213 · OtherBEAUTIFUL DREAMERS LTDST THOMAS SWIMMING ASSOCIATION INC — $274,307 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES VI — $244,800 · OtherHEBREW CONGREGATION OF ST THOMAS INC — $223,306 · OtherCRUCIAN HERITAGE AND NATURE T — $221,893 · OtherMeeting The Needs of Our Community — $230,050 · Other+87 more — $3,648,649 · Other+87 moreThe Virgin Island Childrens Museum — $468,733 · Arts & CultureThe Virgin I…CMCARTS INC — $206,336 · Arts & CultureCMCARTS INCLIBERTY PLACE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY PLAC…TEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC — $97,500 · Arts & CultureTEN SLEEPLES…CARIBBEAN GENEALOGY LIBRARY INC — $89,165 · Arts & CultureCARIBBEAN GE…UNITED JAZZ FOUNDATION — $55,100 · Arts & CultureST JOHN SINGERS INC — $52,560 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ST CROIX INC — $51,000 · Arts & CultureAtelier St Thomas Arts Foundation Inc — $45,926 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $136,830 · Arts & Culture+5 moreMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC — $573,170 · EducationMY BROTHERS…THE ROTARY EAST FOUNDATION INC — $112,000 · EducationTHE ROTARY …ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INC — $83,700 · EducationALL SAINTS …LEAP AND LEARN ACADEMY — $71,850 · EducationLEAP AND LE…GIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC — $63,665 · EducationGIFFT HILL …The Center for Educational Growth Inc — $61,500 · EducationANTILLES SCHOOL INC — $61,000 · EducationVI CRAWL INC — $47,400 · EducationWorld Ocean School Inc — $42,500 · Education+3 more — $68,000 · Education+3 moreISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION INC — $298,980 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC — $165,200 · EnvironmentTHE ST GEORGE VILLAGE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF ST CROIX INC — $104,823 · EnvironmentCoral World Ocean and Reef Initiative Inc — $74,000 · EnvironmentCORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $57,490 · Environment+3 more — $23,625 · EnvironmentVIRGIN ISLANDS PERINATAL INC — $251,750 · HealthSCHNEIDER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $149,800 · HealthIsland Health & Wellness Center Inc — $101,500 · HealthPATIENT ASSIST VI INC — $83,647 · HealthVILLAGE VIRGIN ISLANDS PARTNERS IN RECOVERY INC — $40,000 · Health+3 more — $48,500 · HealthHumane Society of St Thomas — $631,808 · Animals+1 more — $8,728 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST THOMAS ST JOHN INC — $111,237 · Youth DevelopmentVIRGIN ISLANDS BOARD SPORTS FEDERATION INC — $84,335 · Youth DevelopmentYTEENS VI INC — $37,020 · Youth DevelopmentASCENSION LIVITY INC — $29,819 · Youth DevelopmentILERI INC — $27,091 · Youth DevelopmentENGINEERS FOR TOMORROW OUTREACH — $14,755 · Youth DevelopmentDJS TRAINING FACILITY INC — $13,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,228 · Youth Development
Other$6,652,564Arts & Culture$1,303,150Education$1,184,785Environment$724,118Health$675,197Animals$640,536Youth Development$327,485

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 budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC — $734,458 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS — $665,888 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society of St Thomas — $631,808 over 6y, 14% of budgetMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC — $573,170 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetThe Virgin Island Childrens Museum — $468,733 over 6y, 42% of budgetISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION INC — $298,980 over 4y, 49% of budgetST THOMAS SWIMMING ASSOCIATION INC — $274,307 over 4y, 45% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS PERINATAL INC — $251,750 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetMeeting The Needs of Our Community — $230,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCMCARTS INC — $206,336 over 5y, 14% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $166,794 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC — $165,200 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COALITION OF ST CROIX — $163,690 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSCHNEIDER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $149,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $140,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTLC FOUNDATION — $139,800 over 3y, 87% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION NOW — $122,651 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $121,555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS RESCUE INC — $112,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE ROTARY EAST FOUNDATION INC — $112,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST THOMAS ST JOHN INC — $111,237 over 4y, 46% of budgetTHE ST GEORGE VILLAGE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF ST CROIX INC — $104,823 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetIsland Health & Wellness Center Inc — $101,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetLIBERTY PLACE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetTEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC — $97,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetNANA BABY CHILDRENS HOME — $88,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS BOARD SPORTS FEDERATION INC — $84,335 over 1y, 34% of budgetALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL INC — $83,700 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPATIENT ASSIST VI INC — $83,647 over 4y, 21% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS TRAIL ALLIANCE INC — $79,050 over 2y, 43% of budgetCoral World Ocean and Reef Initiative Inc — $74,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLEAP AND LEARN ACADEMY — $71,850 over 4y, 19% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE CRAFTS AND BUILD — $70,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetGIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC — $63,665 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Educational Growth Inc — $61,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetANTILLES SCHOOL INC — $61,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST THOMAS YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $58,167 over 2y, 37% of budgetCORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $57,490 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetLOVE CITY STRONG INC — $56,380 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED JAZZ FOUNDATION — $55,100 over 3y, 13% of budgetST JOHN SINGERS INC — $52,560 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVI CRAWL INC — $47,400 over 2y, 61% of budgetAtelier St Thomas Arts Foundation Inc — $45,926 over 2y, 51% of budgetVIRGIN ISLANDS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC — $43,650 over 3y, 34% of budgetTHE FORUM INC — $42,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetWorld Ocean School Inc — $42,500 over 2y, 2.5% 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.

Prior Family Foundati…St Croix Foundation f…The Peter and Patrici…JMP Foundation IncLiberty Communication…AARP FoundationThe Edouard Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncCharlottesville Area …Globalgiving Foundati…Lana Vento Charitable…The David and Kathlee…
Prior Family FoundationVI36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prior Family Foundation · St Croix Foundation for Community Development · The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation · JMP Foundation Inc · Liberty Communications Foundation Inc · AARP Foundation · The Edouard Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Lana Vento Charitable Trust · The David and Kathleen Baum Family 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 Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc 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 →median 100%
  • Environmental Protection in the Caribbean Incorporated — 100% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 147 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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