· Private foundation
D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNION MISSION MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,407 |
| SYMPHONICITY | $1,407 |
| EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL | $1,407 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH COMMUNITY TR-EXEMPT | $1,407 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH TR THE PSY DISABLED | $1,407 |
| ELIZABETH RIVER PROJECT | $533 |
| THE GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $501 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +293%
- UMUNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%
- SSSYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACH6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +25%
Funded once
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +16%- NPNORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -92%
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.
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
Believing that music has the power to inspire, the fredericksburg symphony will fulfill this mission by enriching the community with live music. the symphony brings performances, educational programs, and community engagement initiatives…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Provide financial support to virginia symphony orchestra by administering funds and property, engaging in other activities as qualify for an exempt organization, solicit and receive funds and property by gift, transfer, devise or bequest…
The virginia opera association, inc. works to attract, educate, develop and engage a diverse base of audiences, volunteers and professionals through the promotion and production of quality performances in the commonwealth of virginia.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The general purpose of the northern neck orchestra corporation is to produce orchestral and chamber music concerts, plus related educational programs, in the northen neck peninsula of virginia, for the enjoyment and enrichment of the…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACH ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
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