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D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,407
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$583k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$14k0%
FY20247$17k14%
FY20239$27k22%
FY20226$4k0%
FY202115$57k20%
FY202012$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$48kHealth$24kEducation$17kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$9kEnvironment$6kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Virginia Arts Festival Inc$18,69860%
Union Mission Ministries Inc$11,19850%
Symphonicity-The Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach$11,11161%
Eastern Virginia Medical School$9,3665n/a
Virginia Symphony Orchestra$8,31250%
The Eggleston Services Foundation$6,286345%
Norfolk Collegiate School$5,10520%
The Governor's School for the Arts Foundation$4,50130%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$3,53510%
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia$3,20020%
Norfolk Public Library Foundation$2,88411%
The Elizabeth River Project$2,53320%
Edmarc Inc$2,22120%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Virginia Arts Festival Inc: $18,698 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Mission Ministries Inc: $11,198 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSymphonicity-The Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach: $11,111 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVirginia Symphony Orchestra: $8,312 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Eggleston Services Foundation: $6,286 over 3y, 45% of budgetNorfolk Collegiate School: $5,105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Governor's School for the Arts Foundation: $4,501 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $3,535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southeastern Virginia: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorfolk Public Library Foundation: $2,884 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $2,533 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEdmarc Inc: $2,221 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family FoundationVA17.9× affinity6 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 · Townebank Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation · The Pruden Foundation · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · The Dalis Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc

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.

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About D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr

How much does D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr give?
D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr reported 10 grants totaling $14,069 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Health (19%), Education (14%).
Who are D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Virginia Arts Festival Inc ($19k), Union Mission Ministries Inc ($11k), Symphonicity-The Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach ($11k).
Does D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation, Townebank Foundation, Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
Where is D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr based?
D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr is based in FL.

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 18 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-PF 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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