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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 FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

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
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 58 grants below total $1,148,120, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,502,146 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $354,026 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $627k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $388k
$11,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY$81,100
SALVATION ARMY$79,525
WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC$64,500
FORKIDS$57,215
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS$56,000
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE$50,000
SUFFOLK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CENTER$42,025
ROC SOLID FOUNDATION$41,050
TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION$34,000
COALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN$31,500
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH$30,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$28,750
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC$28,750
YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$28,133
NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION$25,700
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $10k → 17%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $10k → 17%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $10k → 17%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 15%RBR UPLIFT CHARITABLE FOUNDAT: $6k → 12%UP CENTER: $8k → 19%COALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN: $32k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF COASTAL: $6k → 19%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $28k → 12%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $25k → 12%UNION MISSION: $35k → 19%UNION MISSION: $15k → 19%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $7k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 50 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
40

Total granted

$3.7M
$612k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

62%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FI
    FORKIDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +48%
  • GA
    GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $189k · revenue +227%
  • SE
    SUFFOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +74% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $106k
  • TM
    THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -48%
  • OA
    ODU ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Southampton County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
2
Portsmouth Reads
Education
3
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Norfolk State University Research and Innovation Foundation

To provide brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.

Community Improvement
5
The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation

Sevacf enhances the quality of the life in south hampton roads by connecting people who care with causes large and small, managing charitable funds, and providing grants and scholarships for (continued on schedule o)

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6
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
7
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

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8
Access Partnership

Access partnership facilitates the connection between those with health care needs and available resources. vision is that all residents of hampton roads can obtain the health care that they need to achieve personal wellness. focus is…

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9
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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10
Hampton Roads Academy

Hampton roads academy is an inclusive community grounded in service and compassion, preparing students to excel intellectually, artistically, physically, and morally in higher education and in life.

Education
11
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
12
Portsmouth Museums Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Townebank Foundation. 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

72 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. 72 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
34/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANTS 5000: $468,792 · OtherGRANTS 5000SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS: $228,855 · OtherSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTSSALVATION ARMY: $197,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $106,080 · Other+73 more: $1,467,527 · Other+73 moreSUFFOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $180,200 · EducationSUFFOLK EDUCATI…NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC: $170,400 · EducationNANSEMOND SUFFO…Washington and Lee University: $96,346 · EducationWashington and …THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE MOREHEAD-CA…WILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationWILLIAMSBURG CH…NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationNORFOLK COLLEGI…ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $35,400 · EducationWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $189,200 · HealthWESTERN TIDEWA…ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $179,050 · HealthROC SOLID FOUN…TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION: $100,500 · HealthTOWNEBANK FOUN…Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $81,250 · HealthChildren's Hos…EDMARC INC: $27,000 · Health+4 more: $36,000 · Health+4 moreRAWLS MUSEUM ARTS INC: $163,733 · Arts & CultureTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $57,000 · Arts & CultureSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $56,000 · Arts & CultureSUFFOLK ART LEAGUE: $30,375 · Arts & CultureHistoric St Lukes Restoration: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORKIDS INC: $319,665 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterGLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM: $188,500 · PhilanthropyST MICHAELS CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $14,900 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $10,500 · PhilanthropyPENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJIMMYE LAYCOCK CHARITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $59,633 · Human ServicesTHE UNION MISSION: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesISLE OF WIGHT CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROGRAM INC: $15,100 · Human ServicesBegin Again Foundation: $11,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $8,296 · Human Services+3 more: $16,300 · Human Services
Other$2,468,754Education$693,346Health$613,000Arts & Culture$328,608Housing & Shelter$325,665Philanthropy$273,900Human Services$221,829

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORKIDS INC: $319,665 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $189,200 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM: $188,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetSUFFOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $180,200 over 6y, 43% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $179,050 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC: $170,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRAWLS MUSEUM ARTS INC: $163,733 over 9y, 22% of budgetTOWNEBANK FOUNDATION: $100,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $96,346 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $81,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $71,700 over 3y, 17% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC: $70,250 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetSuffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $65,725 over 2y, 15% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $59,633 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $57,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNION MISSION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $46,193 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC: $31,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSUFFOLK ART LEAGUE: $30,375 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $28,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDMARC INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUFFOLK HUMANE SOCIETY: $23,995 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetST MICHAELS CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARLINGTON YOUTH SPORTS: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS CLASSICAL: $19,628 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetISLE OF WIGHT CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROGRAM INC: $15,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $14,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlan Bee Academy: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk Nansemond Historical Society: $12,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetHistoric St Lukes Restoration: $11,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GENIEVE SHELTER: $11,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBegin Again Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Elizabeth River Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJIMMYE LAYCOCK CHARITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORFOLK FESTEVENTS LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAWLS MUSEUM ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
  • Who funds NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MOREHEAD-CAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗

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 Foun…Hampton Roads Communi…Dominion Energy Chari…United Way of South H…Beazley Foundation In…Sentara HealthThe Blocker FoundationTownebank FoundationBirdsong Charitable F…The Pruden FoundationThe Southeast Virgini…Langley for Families …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 122 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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