· Private foundation
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of PORTSMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHIP OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS | $80,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59,708 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE VIRGINIA | $55,919 |
| THE EDWARD BROWN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH MIN | $30,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH CATHOLIC REGIONAL SCHOOL | $27,789 |
| MOSAIC STEEL ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC | $25,000 |
| FOR KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $20,500 |
| PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC | $10,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH FAMILY YMCA | $7,500 |
| MAB WELLNESS OUTREACH | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Portsmouth General Hospital 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, 100% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +68%
- SHSupportWorks Housing8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +7%
- FIFORKIDS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- OCOASIS COMMISSION ON SOCIAL MINISTRY OF PORTSMOUTH - CHESAPEAKEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $42k · revenue +144%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HRone grant, 2022 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
Hampton Roads Community Health Center is a not-for-profit comprehensive primary health care organization dedicated to providing quality and affordable health services in a safe environment to our communities.
To generate private and public funds for the children's museum of virginia, and to serve as a receiving agent for funds benefiting all of portsmouth's city museums and related projects, in partnership with the city of portsmouth.
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.
We exist to create environments and opportunities in which holistic transformation takes place through relationships, experiences, and reflection.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
A person-centered community based intermediate care facility/mental retardation(icf/mr) that is dedicated to providing the best rehabilitative services in a home-like environment through quality health care, therapy, and educational…
See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Commission On Social Ministry of Portsmouth - Chesapeake and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 60 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH INVESTMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC STEEL ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH COALITION ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS COMMISSION ON SOCIAL MINISTRY OF PORTSMOUTH - CHESAPEAKE ↗
- Who funds STARBASE VICTORY INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDMARC 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 · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · The Blocker Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · The Landmark Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Portsmouth General Hospital 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.