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Compton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$427k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.1MHealth$855kPublic Benefit$275kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS COLLEGE FUND$100,000
LAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$85,000
EVMS$50,000
HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS$50,000
CHKD LIGHTING THE WAY-MENTAL HEALTH$50,000
VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL$25,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
VIRGINIA BEACH STUDENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$25,000
DARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION$17,000
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 (FY24–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 9%HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $50k → 10%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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 11 repeat orgs$275k 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 +21% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$2.0M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LT
    LAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $255k · revenue +75%
  • CH
    CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +4%
  • AC
    ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $238k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • VL
    VANGUARD LANDING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +21%

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
Hampton Roads Academy

Hampton roads academy is an inclusive community grounded in service and compassion, preparing students to excel intellectually, artistically, physically, and morally in higher education and in life.

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Norfolk Collegiate School

To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.

Education
4
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
5
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

6
The New Hampton School

New hampton school cultivates lifelong learners who will serve as active global citizens. new hampton school promotes literature, science & useful arts education to students in grades 9 through post-graduate.

Education
7
Norfolk Christian Schools

It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.

Education
8
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…

9
Hampshire College Trustees

The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform…

Education
10
Harbor School

Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.

Education
11
The Harbor School Corporation

The harbor school embraces the uniqueness of each young child and teaches students to celebrate this in themselves and in each other. our holistic approach nurtures confident, kind, and capable learners.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vanguard Landing Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $250,000 · EducationCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $250,000 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACADEMYACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $238,400 · EducationACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATIONCHKD LIGHTING THE WAY-MENTAL HEALTH — $250,000 · OtherCHKD LIGHTING THE WAY-MENTAL HEALTHEVMS — $250,000 · OtherEVMSACCESS COLLEGE FUND — $250,000 · OtherACCESS COLLEGE FUND+1 more — $25,000 · OtherLAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $255,000 · HealthLAKE TAYLOR …VANGUARD LANDING INC — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterVANGUARD LAN…HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$863,400Other$775,000Health$255,000Housing & Shelter$250,000Human Services$100,000Arts & Culture$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $255,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVANGUARD LANDING INC — $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $238,400 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 5.5% 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.

  • Who funds LAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds VANGUARD LANDING INC
  • Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
  • Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds DARE COUNTY BOAT BUILDERS FOUNDATION

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.

Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Windward Foundation · Douglas & Marianne Dickerson Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Compton Family Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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