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Good News Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Good News Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Peninsula Community Foundation Of Virginia Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Good News Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $182k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWSON-BAILEY PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COOPERATING MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| PENINSULA RESCUE MISSION | $20,500 |
| ORPHAN NETWORK | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE CAPERNAUM | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA PENINSULA | $10,000 |
| SERVANT PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF METRO RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| HELP | $5,000 |
| LACKEY FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries5× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +32%
- YCYOUTH CHALLENGE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +271%
- EHELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY3× · 2017–2019 · $51k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE OLD DOMINION REGIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HUHANDS UP MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -93%
- SWShepherds Way Relief Center Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +55%
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.
Housing the homeless
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Transitional living for recovered addicts.
Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…
To grow disciples of jesus christ by ministering to and serving those in need while sharing god's hope, faith, and love, bringing them to a place of restoration and empowering them to become productive members of our society.
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
Serving Him In Partnership is committed to minister to individuals who have been displaced and need time and support to adjust their lives The ministry promotes healthy lifestyles with Christian values within the family the church the work…
Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.
At Father's Heart 4U we meet people at the crossroads of their life and share Jesus with them through: 1. Sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom and the new life it brings 2. Small groups discussing life choices, direction and goals 3.…
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grove Christian Outreach Center and the most unlike its peers is Serve the City Peninsula. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HERE FOR THE GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWSOME-BAILEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS UP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Way Relief Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS PARTNERS ↗
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: Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sentara Health · The Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Virginia Peninsula Foodbank · Carmax Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Good News 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.
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.