Virginia · Community foundation
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
To benefit the ES of VA by enabling donors to meet their charitable goals through endowed funds, educating donors concerning effective philanthropy and grant making to meet emerging community needs.
- $303k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hampton Roads Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $303k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $652k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $303k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $223k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $361k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $414k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $214k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $330k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $261k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $228k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia | $249,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Tasley Volunteer Fire Company | $227,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Accomack Little League | $90,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Northhampton County Education Found | $82,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging Community Action Agency | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc | $72,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity Inc | $62,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of Virginia's Eastern Shore Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Sentara Health · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
- How much does Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation give?
- Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $303,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia ($250k), Tasley Volunteer Fire Company ($228k), Central Accomack Little League ($90k).
- Does Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, United Way of Virginia's Eastern Shore Inc, Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc.
- Where is Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation based?
- Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation is based in VA.
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