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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
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$18M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $35,956,096, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,857,193 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,901,097 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $36M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL$18,076,052
SENTARA HEALTH$17,712,544
OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL$35,000
COLISEUM CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT$25,000
THE WILLIAMSBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PULSEPOINT FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $63k → 14%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $6k → 14%ALBEMARLE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $95k → 15%GREATER WILLIAMSBURG CHAMBER & TOURISM ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%TIDEWATER EMS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 9%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $35k → 9%VIRGINIA BEACH RESQUE SQUAD FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 10%SUFFOLK PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $15k → 12%COLISEUM CENTRAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT: $25k → 14%GOVERNORS MAGNET SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $13k → 19%PULSEPOINT FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%ALBEMARLE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $95k → 15%GREATER WILLIAMSBURG CHAMBER & TOURISM ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%TIDEWATER EMS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 9%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $10k → 9%SENTARA HEALTH: $17.7M → 10%WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $6k → 12%SENTARA HEALTHCARE: $24.5M → 19%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%ALBEMARLE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $95k → 15%THE WILLIAMSBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8k → 7%TIDEWATER EMS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 9%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $10k → 9%SENTARA HEALTHCARE: $23.6M → 19%ALBEMARLE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $95k → 15%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $106k → 7%TIDEWATER EMS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 9%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $10k → 9%SENTARA HEALTHCARE: $22.1M → 19%ALBEMARLE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $16k → 15%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 7%TIDEWATER EMS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 9%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $10k → 9%SENTARA HEALTHCARE: $14.2M → 19%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 7%PENINSULA EMS COUNCIL: $10k → 9%SENTARA HEALTHCARE: $9.2M → 19%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 7%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 7%OLDE TOWNE MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 7%AMNGELS OF MERCY INC: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$262M · 12 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$262M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SENTARA HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111M · revenue +493%
  • WA
    WMBG AREA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CORP
    6× · 2017–2022 · $606k · revenue +92%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $128k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SP
    SUFFOLK PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -47%
  • VB
    Virginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +66%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +154%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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2
Williamsburg Regional Hospital

Williamsburg Regional Hospital was an acute care facility located in Kingstree, South Carolina. The goal of the hospital was to deliver the best healthcare available to the residents of Williamsburg County and the surrounding area as we…

Health
3
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
4
Old Dominion Emergency Medical Services Alliance Inc

The old dominion emergency medical services alliance is an integral part of virginia's comprehensive emergency medical services system. we provide access, identify, coordinate, plan and implement an efficient and effective regional ems…

Health
5
Blue Ridge Emergency Medical Services Council Inc

The mission of the brems council is to promote and support quality patient care and state-of-the-art emergency medical services throughout the brems region. our vision is to foster a comprehensive, high-performance, and sustainable ems…

Health
6
Portsmouth Community Health Center Inc

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.

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7
Chesapeake Regional Medical Group

The mission of chesapeake regional medical group is to attract hard-to-find physicians to the chesapeake, virginia area and retain them with practice administration assistance.

Health
8
Tidalhealth Nanticoke Inc

Improve the health of the communities we serve.

Health
9
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

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

Health
10
Coastal Hospice

Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.

Human Services
11
Portsmouth Reads
Education
12
Summersville Regional Medical Center

Above all else, summersville regional medical center is committed to the care and improvement of human life. in recognition of this commitment, we will strive to deliver quality, cost effective healthcare to the communities we serve

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peninsulas Emergency Medical Services Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reck League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL: $146,434,709 · OtherEASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL+8 more: $2,974,730 · OtherSENTARA HEALTH: $111,199,886 · HealthSENTARA HEALTH+8 more: $1,786,050 · HealthTHE COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $6,000 · Education
Other$149,409,439Health$112,985,936Education$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 HealthHampton Roads Communi…Townebank FoundationUnited Way of South H…Dominion Energy Chari…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sentara Hospitals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sentara Hospitals. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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