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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

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

1
’17
7
’18
3
’19
7
’20
10
’21
11
’22
7
’23
10
’24
16
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$545kEducation$485kArts & Culture$464kHuman Services$387kRecreation & Sports$358kPublic Safety & Disaster$322kFood & Nutrition$203kHealth$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$652k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Museum of Chincoteague Island$50,000
Mary N Smith Alumni Association Inc$50,000
Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence$50,000
Northampton Historic Preservation Society$35,000
North Accomack Little League$30,000
North Street Playhouse Inc$25,000
Eastern Shore's Own Inc$25,000
Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center Inc$20,000
Citizens for Central Park$10,000
United Way of Virginia's Eastern Shore Inc$8,000
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 (FY20–25, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 8%YMCA of Southeastern Virginia: $50k → 9%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $8k → 9%Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $50k → 16%RED CROSS OF HAMPTON ROADS: $12k → 19%Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia: $10k → 19%Eastern Shore Action Agency on Aging ESCAA: $50k → 19%Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging Community Action Agency: $25k → 19%Eastern Shore of Virginia Coalition Against Dom Violence: $16k → 16%Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $6k → 16%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$855k · 14 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
27

Total granted

$855k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • CA
    CENTRAL ACCOMACK LITTLE LEAGUE
    2× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +19% · 35% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTHHAMPTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUND
    3× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +82%
  • ES
    EASTERN SHORE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FB
    Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • TV
    Tasley Volunteer Fire Company
    one grant, 2017 · $228k
  • CI
    CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND ARTS ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Inc

Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…

Arts & Culture
3
Essex County Museum & Historical Society Inc

Research and presserve history of Essex County VA & provide displays, presentations, publications and education to the county citizens and visitors

Arts & Culture
4
Eastport Volunteer Fire Company

The mission of the eastport volunteer fire company is to promote community fire and life safety through collaborative partnerships with the annapolis fire department and eastport citizens, civic groups, and businesses.

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5
East Hanover Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency care and ambulance service to the citizens in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, responding to 800 calls, annually

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6
Eastern Shore of Virginia Housing Alliance

The eastern shore of virginia housing alliance is a nonprofit organization that provides new and rehabilitated affordable housing, either to rent or to own, to residents of accomack and northampton counties.

Housing & Shelter
7
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
8
East Hampton Historical Society Inc

The east hampton historical society serves the residents and visitors of east hampton by collecting, preserving, presenting, and interpreting the material, cultural, and economic heritage of the town and its surroundings.

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9
Essex Volunteer Fire Company Inc

The mission of essex volunteer fire company, inc. is to provide emergency services to citizens of baltimore county, maryland in their time of need. we accomplish this through education, prevention and protection of life and property with…

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10
Eastern Shore Spca

Care and placement of unwanted animals on the eastern shore of virginia servicing accomack and northampton counties. providing temporary lodging and care to animals until placed while encouraging spaying and neutering.

Animals
11
Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust

To conserve rural lands through voluntary conservation easements. to educate and inform landowners about the benefits of granting easements and to document and monitor every accepted conservation easement.

Environment
12
Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society

The mission of the Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote awareness of the history and culture of Suffolk and old Nansemond County for the education and enjoyment of present and future…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Central Accomack Little League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr21%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr21%13%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
12%
29/248

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.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia — $249,850 · OtherFood Bank of Southeastern VirginiaTasley Volunteer Fire Company — $227,900 · OtherTasley Volunteer Fire CompanyCENTRAL ACCOMACK LITTLE LEAGUE — $90,000 · OtherCENTRAL ACCOMACK LITTLE LEAGUEYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $60,000 · OtherEASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $60,000 · OtherEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $62,000 · Other+26 more — $796,000 · Other+26 moreHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $511,750 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON ROADS COMMUN…EASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · PhilanthropyEASTERN SHORE COMMUN…EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA BARRIER ISLANDS CENTER INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureEASTERN SHO…CAPE CHARLES ROSENWALD SCHOOL RESTORATION INITIATIVE INC — $56,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE CHARLE…MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF C…Island Community House Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureIsland Comm…NORTH STREET PLAYHOUSE INC — $49,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH STREE…Eastern Shore's Own Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureEastern Sho…ARTS ENTER CAPE CHARLES INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureARTS ENTER …NORTHHAMPTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUND — $82,000 · EducationEASTERN SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationEASTERN SHORE AREA AGENCY ON AGING COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $75,000 · Human ServicesEASTERN SHORE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $72,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $58,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $12,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA — $10,000 · Human ServicesONANCOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMELFA VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCU — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCHINCOTEAGUE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $60,000 · Food & NutritionDOS SANTOS — $42,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,545,750Philanthropy$589,750Arts & Culture$325,000Education$232,000Human Services$227,000Public Safety & Disaster$185,000Food & Nutrition$102,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRAL ACCOMACK LITTLE LEAGUE — $90,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetNORTHHAMPTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUND — $82,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetEASTERN SHORE AREA AGENCY ON AGING COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $72,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA BARRIER ISLANDS CENTER INC — $70,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $62,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $58,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE CHARLES ROSENWALD SCHOOL RESTORATION INITIATIVE INC — $56,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAUXILIARY OF RIVERSIDE SHORE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetONANCOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMELFA VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCU — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEASTERN SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDAVIS CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetFRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetPLACES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARY N SMITH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetIsland Community House Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNORTH STREET PLAYHOUSE INC — $49,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEASTERN SHORE OF VA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $45,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetDOS SANTOS — $42,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetCape Charles Historical Society — $40,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTHE RANDY CUSTIS MEMORIAL FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHINCOTEAGUE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARINE SCIENCE CONSORTIUM INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH ACCOMACK LITTLE LEAGUE — $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNO LIMITS EASTERN SHORE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEastern Shore's Own Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetARTS ENTER CAPE CHARLES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CENTRAL PARK — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER INC ACCOMACK NORTHAMPTON — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL — $7,000 over 1y, 10% 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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of Virgini…Franklin P and Arthur…Robert E & Marie Orr …Robert G Cabell III a…Sentara HealthThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA42.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eastern Shore of Virginia Community 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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