How much does Suffolk Foundation give?

Suffolk Foundation reported 58 itemized grants totaling $1,148,120, out of $1,502,146 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Suffolk Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (11%).

Who are Suffolk Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forkids Inc ($320k), Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc ($189k), Global Action Platform ($189k).

Does Suffolk Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Suffolk Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.

Where is Suffolk Foundation based?

Suffolk Foundation is based in VA.

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Suffolk Foundation

The mission of the SUFFOLK FOUNDATION is to benefit the people of suffolk and western tidewater by facilitating and developing philanthropy, and by awarding grants and scholarships to meet local community needs.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 58
Itemized grants FY2025: 42
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $11,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $81,100
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 42; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Suffolk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	57	$1.1M	54%
FY2024	42	$1.0M	50%
FY2023	26	$684k	65%
FY2022	25	$456k	32%
FY2021	26	$465k	27%
FY2020	23	$468k	30%
FY2019	21	$328k	48%
FY2018	17	$210k	35%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$734kArts & Culture$608kHealth$551kPhilanthropy$487kHuman Services$470kHousing & Shelter$382kReligion$271kFood & Nutrition$213kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Forkids Inc	$319,665	9	1%
Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc	$189,200	9	1%
Global Action Platform	$188,500	4	24%
Suffolk Education Foundation	$180,200	6	43%
Roc Solid Foundation Inc	$179,050	7	1%
Nansemond Suffolk Academy Association Inc	$170,400	8	0%
Rawls Museum Arts Inc	$163,733	9	22%
Townebank Foundation	$100,500	5	0%
Washington and Lee University	$96,346	4	0%
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters	$81,250	8	0%

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All grantees of Suffolk Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Forkids Inc	$319,665	9	1%
Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc	$189,200	9	1%
Global Action Platform	$188,500	4	24%
Suffolk Education Foundation	$180,200	6	43%
Roc Solid Foundation Inc	$179,050	7	1%
Nansemond Suffolk Academy Association Inc	$170,400	8	0%
Rawls Museum Arts Inc	$163,733	9	22%
Townebank Foundation	$100,500	5	0%
Washington and Lee University	$96,346	4	0%
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters	$81,250	8	0%
The Salvation Army	$79,525	1	n/a
Nansemond River Preservation Alliance	$71,700	3	17%
Meals on Wheels of Suffolk & Isle of Wight Inc	$70,250	7	5%
Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center	$65,725	2	15%
Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads	$59,633	3	0%
The Mariners' Museum	$57,000	2	1%
Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Foundation	$56,000	1	3%
The Morehead-Cain Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Williamsburg Christian Academy	$50,000	4	1%
Norfolk Collegiate School	$50,000	1	0%
The Union Mission	$50,000	2	0%
Higher Ground USA Inc	$46,193	3	0%
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc	$42,500	3	0%
Access College Foundation	$36,000	2	0%
Coalition Against Poverty in Suffolk Inc	$31,500	1	12%
Suffolk Art League	$30,375	3	5%
An Achievable Dream Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Bernie's Book Bank	$28,750	1	0%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc	$28,750	1	n/a
Edmarc Inc	$27,000	3	1%
Hampden-Sydney College	$25,000	1	0%
Hampton Roads Workforce Foundation	$25,000	1	2%
Rotary Club of Salisbury Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	13%
Suffolk Humane Society	$23,995	2	7%
St Michaels Concours D'Elegance Inc	$20,000	2	39%
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Arlington Youth Sports	$20,000	1	5%
Hampton Roads Classical	$19,628	2	4%
The Birdsong Health Literacy Center of Excellence	$17,000	1	n/a
Isle of Wight Christian Outreach Program Inc	$15,100	2	1%
Green Acres Presbyterian Church	$15,000	1	n/a
The Friends of Foster Care Incorporated	$14,900	2	0%
Old Dominion Athletic Foundation	$13,000	1	n/a
Suffolk Sheriffs Office Charities Inc	$13,000	2	n/a
Plan Bee Academy	$12,000	1	1%
Breakthrough T1d	$12,000	1	0%
Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society	$12,000	2	7%
Historic St Lukes Restoration	$11,500	1	2%
The Genieve Shelter	$11,500	2	1%
Begin Again Foundation	$11,000	1	2%
United Way of South Hampton Roads	$10,500	1	0%
Sentara Health	$10,000	1	n/a
The Elizabeth River Project	$10,000	1	0%
The Hurrah Players Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Jimmye Laycock Charity Foundation	$10,000	1	21%
Suffolk River Heritage Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Union Presbyterian Seminary	$10,000	1	n/a
Norfolk Festevents Ltd	$10,000	1	0%
Diamonds in the Rough Rescue Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Child & Family Services of Eastern Va Inc D/B/A the Up Center	$8,296	1	0%
Blakey Weaver Counseling Center Inc	$8,000	1	4%
Delta Research & Educational Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
Evelyns Wildlife Refuge	$7,500	1	11%
Girls on the Run of S Hampton Roads	$7,150	1	1%
Suffolk Christian Academy	$6,750	1	0%
Friends of the Animals - Greater Hampton Roads	$6,500	1	n/a
Communities In Schools of Hampton Roads	$6,400	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity of South Hampton Roads Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Youth Readiness Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Suffolk Cheer Fund	$6,000	1	11%
Hero Kids Foundation	$6,000	1	3%
Rbr Uplift Charitable Foundation Inc	$5,600	1	37%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$5,600	1	0%
Volunteer Hampton Roads	$5,500	1	2%
The Edge Christian Camp Inc	$5,500	1	1%
Hope for Suffolk	$5,200	1	n/a
The Children's Center	$5,100	1	0%

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Suffolk Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 63.

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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.

Obici Healthcare Foundation IncVA63.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Sentara Health · The Blocker Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · The Pruden Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu

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 Suffolk Foundation

How much does Suffolk Foundation give?: Suffolk Foundation reported 58 itemized grants totaling $1,148,120, out of $1,502,146 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Suffolk Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (11%).
Who are Suffolk Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forkids Inc ($320k), Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc ($189k), Global Action Platform ($189k).
Does Suffolk Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Suffolk Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc, Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
Where is Suffolk Foundation based?: Suffolk Foundation is based in VA.