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Sentara Hospitals

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

$44M
Granted FY2022
6
Itemized grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$36M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$18,076,052
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.7B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Sentara Hospitals funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20226$36M33%
FY20218$28M0%
FY20209$36M0%
FY201914$47M14%
FY201812$90M17%
FY201714$26Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$260MPublic Benefit$1.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$236kCommunity Improvement$65kArts & Culture$20kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastern Virginia Medical School$146,434,7098n/a
Sentara Health$111,199,886811%
Pasquotank County$1,875,0005n/a
Albemarle Hospital Foundation$1,395,300535%
Wmbg Area Medical Assistance Corp$605,50065%
Albemarle Regional Health Services$395,8335n/a
American Heart Association Inc$127,95030%
Tidewater Emergency Medical Services Council Inc$125,00062%
Peninsulas Emergency Medical Services Council Inc$85,00075%
The College of the Albemarle Foundation Inc$64,0004n/a
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Where it is load-bearing

Sentara Hospitals supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSentara Health: $111,199,886 over 8y, 11% of budgetAlbemarle Hospital Foundation: $1,395,300 over 5y, 35% of budgetWmbg Area Medical Assistance Corp: $605,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $127,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTidewater Emergency Medical Services Council Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPeninsulas Emergency Medical Services Council Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetWilliamsburg Area Chamber of Commerce: $40,063 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPulsepoint Foundation: $26,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetColiseum Central Business Improvement District Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSuffolk Partnership for a Healthy Community Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVirginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc: $13,334 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Governor's School for the Arts Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWilliamsburg Music Association: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWestern Tidewater Free Clinic Inc: $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngels of Mercy Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sentara HealthVA31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sentara Health · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sentara Hospitals

How much does Sentara Hospitals give?
Sentara Hospitals reported 6 itemized grants totaling $35,956,096, out of $43,857,193 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sentara Hospitals fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (99%), Public Benefit (1%), Public Safety & Disaster (0%).
Who are Sentara Hospitals's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Eastern Virginia Medical School ($146M), Sentara Health ($111M), Pasquotank County ($1.9M).
Does Sentara Hospitals fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sentara Hospitals?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sentara Health, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Townebank Foundation.
Where is Sentara Hospitals based?
Sentara Hospitals is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $55M 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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