How much did SENTARA HEALTH grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of SENTARA HEALTH’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

pilothealthcare homelessuninsured underinsuredhealthcare indigentspharmacycharlottesvillebehavioral

2019

supplementrevolutiondevelophealthcare homelesshealthcare indigentsactivitieshealthy

2020

norfolksponsoredresearchcovidrehabilitationfestivalhealthcare indigents

2021

agingyoung childrenchristian principlesopen doorssoccerfightblue ridge

2022

employee surveysurvey endecsuincrease accesslives mobilizingimprovementoutreach

2023

springincreasing accessemployee surveygalasurvey endforwardfresh

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

03FY2024 · 325 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $132k
$10k–50k201 grants · $3.8M
$50k–250k94 grants · $9.0M
$250k+12 grants · $51M

$22,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2B

Total assets

Largest grants

EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL$45,450,000
PLANNING COUNCIL$1,614,478
LISC$1,000,000
NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$500,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$397,973
VIRGINIA ALLIANCE OF YMCAS$375,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$282,500
NETWORK OF REGIONAL ADVOCACY$273,690
VA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION$255,000
VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC$250,000
PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$250,000
OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL & DENTAL CENTER$250,000
GREATER PENINSULA CARES FOUNDATION INC$248,400
CLUSTER SPRINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$232,993
CENTRAL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$207,800

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 (FY17–24, $13.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 71% 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 21% of SENTARA HEALTH’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, 91% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

SENTARA HEALTHlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$150M · 320 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

320 repeat relationships — 191 still active in FY2024, 129 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

320

303

Total granted

$150M

$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+46%

Still filing today

85%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

ER
EVMS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +17% · 84% of their budget
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +135%
OD
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +29%

Funded once

PM
PORTSMOUTH MUSEUMS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $700k · revenue -47%
JO
JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +90%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -67%

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.

Virginia Community Action

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

Virginia Association of Health Plans

Provide Virginia health plans a voice in promoting quality and affordable healthcare through advocacy, communication, education, and research.

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Carilion Medical Center

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health

The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit

Central Virginia Housing Coalition

Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling and financial assistance.

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Virginia Community Voice Inc

To equip neighbors in marginalized communities to realize their vision for their community and to prepare institutions to respond effectively.

Community Improvement

Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Virginia Community Food Connections

To create healthy, food-secure communities and strong, equitable regional food systems by ensuring fresh and local produce is accessible and affordable for all.

Food & Nutrition

Access Partnership

Access partnership is a virginia not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve access to health care for people in need in the hampton roads. our focus is strengthening the safety net system of care, identifying gaps in service and…

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Virginia Housing and Community

The community development mission of virginia housing and community development corporation vchdc is to educate and empower individuals, families and minority business owners to build wealth, access capital and credit, and achieve home…

Housing & Shelter

People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is The Mariners' Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%8/753

the rest of the field

13%

3,166/25,142

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

599 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)

240

Early backer (in before they grew)

583/599

Grantees still filing

458/599

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$101,013,988Education$24,340,766Human Services$14,626,170Health$11,577,040Community Improvement$11,247,995Arts & Culture$3,480,500Philanthropy$3,041,267

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 FoundationVA171.1× affinity148 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 · Langley for Families - · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation Of · Townebank Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg · Riverside Healthcare Association Inc Group · Charlottesville Area Community · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula

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 SENTARA HEALTH 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: CARE FOR ME YOUTH INITIATIVES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 20.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831917701 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 CARE FOR ME YOUTH INITIATIVES, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sentara Health?

Find your warmest path to Sentara Health 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.

SENTARA HEALTH

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

599 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sentara Health?

More from the funding graph

SENTARA HEALTH

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

599 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sentara Health?

More from the funding graph