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Monarch Charities Inc

Giving to children's charities

$153k
Granted FY2017
23
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $132,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $153,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k20 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NOBLEMEN$12,000
YOUNGLIFE CHESAPEAKE$10,000
VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE$10,000
ST MARY'S$5,000
NELLY'S HOUSE$5,000
WILLIAM F ROUNTREE JR FOUNDATION$5,000
VIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$5,000
CASA (JUVENILE & DOMESTIC RELATIONS)$5,000
EQUI-KIDS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM$5,000
TABLE TENNIS CHARITY FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS$5,000
CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
VIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER$5,000
HORIZON HAMPTON ROADS$5,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NELLY'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%THE NOBLEMEN: $12k → 10%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.

03Your 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
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
2
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls

Virginia home for boys and girls (vhbg) is a nonprofit organization that has been serving young people in crisis since 1846. vhbg's mission is to create safe, stable, and inclusive spaces where young people can feel connected to build…

Human Services
3
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.

Education
4
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls Foundation

Exclusively supports the charitable and educational purposes of the virginia home for boys and girls.

Youth Development
5
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition
6
Prevent Child Abuse Virginia

To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.

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7
Virginia Mentoring Partnership

Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…

Crime & Legal
8
Youth Volunteer Corps of Hampton Roads Inc

To engage youth in team-based service experiences that build life and work skills while inspiring a lifetime ethic of service.

Human Services
9
Elevate Early Education Inc

Our mission is to raise awareness, advocate and create innovative initiatives to give children equitable access to a high-quality education for the first eight years of their lives.

Education
10
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc

Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.

Housing & Shelter
11
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
12
The Virginia Home

The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nellys House. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%43%35–55yr11%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
18%
607/3,299

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.

03the grantee network

23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · OtherST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INCBoys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia — $5,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Southeast VirginiaPREVENT CHILD ABUSE HAMPTON ROADS — $5,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE HAMPTON ROADSVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIO…OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC — $5,000 · OtherMOTHER SETON HOUSE INCVIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherVIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $5,000 · OtherFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIATable Tennis Charity Foundation Inc — $5,000 · OtherTable Tennis Charity Foundation IncVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $5,000 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES IN…Link Philanthropy Inc — $12,000 · Human ServicesLink Philanthr…NELLYS HOUSE — $5,000 · Human ServicesNELLYS HOUSEBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…EDMARC INC — $5,000 · HealthEDMARC INCEqui-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program — $5,000 · HealthEqui-Kids Th…YOUNG LIFE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $5,000 · InternationalSamaritan House Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$60,000Human Services$17,000Health$15,000Youth Development$10,000International$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetLink Philanthropy Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNELLYS HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE HAMPTON ROADS — $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSamaritan House Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORKIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTable Tennis Charity Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDMARC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEqui-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 South H…Dominion Energy Chari…Townebank FoundationThe Townsend Family F…The Southeast Virgini…The Blocker FoundationLangley for Families …Sentara HealthThe Charity Bowl Foot…The Landmark Foundati…Dollar Bank Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA30× affinity12 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 South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · The Townsend Family Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sentara Health · The Charity Bowl Football Game · The Landmark Foundation · Dollar Bank 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 Monarch Charities Inc 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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: 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 23 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $14k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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