· Private foundation
Payne Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM | $25,000 |
| EASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NORFOLK ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $5,000 |
| OCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD | $2,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRANCIS ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $1,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA | $1,500 |
| BARRIER ISLAND CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ESEASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +100%
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +76%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +91%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +64%- CCCANCER CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
- DWDELAWARE WILD LANDS INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -57%
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.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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NVERS builds regional capability and capacity through collaborative planning, risk-driven investments, and strategic initiatives that enhance local emergency preparedness and response capabilities.
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The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
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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 Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 EASTERN SHORE RURAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Eastern Shore's Own Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA EASTERN SHORE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WACHAPREAGUE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAINTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Payne Family Charitable 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.
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