· Private foundation
E C Wareheim Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $576k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY MEDICAL ANGELS | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| VETSHOUSE INC | $27,000 |
| UNIVERSITY ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM | $25,000 |
| PRIMEPLUS SENIOR CENTERS | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| THE STOREHOUSE | $20,000 |
| DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| MT TRASHMORE FAMILY YMCA | $20,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEASTERN | $20,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH WAGON | $20,000 |
| MT PLEASANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMercy Medical Angels6× · 2019–2024 · $560k · revenue +26%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads5× · 2019–2023 · $194k · revenue +13%
- SUSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $160k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- VRVB RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ARAPPLE RIDGE FARM INCone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The virginia beach casa program is a private, non-private organization committed to advocating for the best interests of children involved in the juvenile and domestic relations district court process. the casa program recruits, trains and…
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
Casa of central va, inc. recruits, trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court proceedings in the 24th judicial district and educates the community about the needs of these children.
To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
Advocate for abused and neglected children
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Our mission is to speak up for the best interest of children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. we recruit, train, and supervise community volunteers who provide a voice in court to assure each child a safe,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Advocacy Programs of the Blue Ridge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 87 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIMEPLUS SENIOR CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD CASA INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PLACES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds SUGAR PLUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY PROGRAMS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Landmark Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc
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 E C Wareheim 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.
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.