How much did EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 17 grants totaling $850,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in VA.

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

To benefit the Eastern Shore of Virginia by enabling donors to meet their charitable goals through endowed funds, educating donors concerning effective philanthropy and making grants to meet emerging community needs.

$851k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$512k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

buildcapitaltheatre

2019

constructperformreplacerenovationsofficebuildingupgrades

2020

covidrenovate

2021

creationconstruction

2022

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2023

purchase life-savinglife-saving equipment

2024

renovations historicalmshousehvacupgradesbuilding

2025

scholarshipsengagementfinancialstudentshealthfacilityequipment

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $34k
$10k–50k10 grants · $243k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$250k+1 grant · $512k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$652k

Total assets

Largest grants

Hampton Roads Community Foundation$511,750
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore$60,000
Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society Inc$45,000
The Randy Custis Memorial Fund$40,000
ESVA Housing Mission$36,000
Northampton County Education Foundation$32,000
No Limits Eastern Shore$25,000
Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging Community Action Agency$25,000
Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia$10,000
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community College Foundation$10,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC$10,000
Eastern Shore Rural Health System$10,000
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$8,000
Go and Grow Eastern Shore$7,000
Eastern Shore Literacy Council$7,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$854k · 14 repeat orgs$2.4M 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 +24% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$854k

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+24%

Still filing today

93%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $748k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterEducationFood & NutritionOther

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
SB
Smart Beginnings
3× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +145%
ES
Eastern Shore Area Agency on Aging Community Action Agency
2× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +17%

Funded once

UW
United Way of Virginia's Eastern Shore
one grant, 2019 · $250k
YO
YMCA of the Eastern Shore
one grant, 2017 · $228k
TD
The Davis Center
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +17% · 53% of their budget

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.

Eastern Shore of Virginia Housing

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

Eastern Shore of Va Historical

To encourage and promote an interest in the study of the history of the eastern shore and the commonwealth of virginia; to carry on research and work of a historical character; to identify and preserve historic buildings, landmarks, and…

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Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center

To inspire conservation of the marine environment through education, research and sustainable practices.

—

Essex County Museum & Historical Society Inc

Research preserve history of Essex County VA and provide displays presentations publications education to visitors county citizens

Arts & Culture

Essex Historical Society and

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

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc

The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the see sched o.

Arts & Culture

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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Amagansett Life-Saving & Coast

To maintain and preserve the amagansett life-saving and coast guard station located at 160 atlantic ave, amagansett, ny 11930 to operate a museum at the station of the purpose of making it accessible to the public and of interpreting its…

Arts & Culture

Essex Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Provide firefighting and ambulance services to the local community in baltimore county, md.

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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

East Hampton Community

Our mission is to inform, educate and promote the understanding and impact of policy decisions by local government on the economy, public safety and recreational activities within the town of east hampton.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Shore Rural Health 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/58

the rest of the field

10%

25/247

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.

06the grantee network

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

33/44

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,551,750Philanthropy$589,750Arts & Culture$319,000Education$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

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 Community FoundationVA43.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of Virginia's Eastern · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation · Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation · 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 organisation 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Friends of Onancock School.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~26 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208342920 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Friends of Onancock School, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation?

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EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph