· Private foundation
The Agena Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SE VA | $312,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF TIDEWATER | $245,000 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN | $227,500 |
| FORKIDS INC | $213,000 |
| SETON YOUTH SHELTERS | $145,000 |
| YOURS MINISTRY | $135,000 |
| YWCA | $134,500 |
| TIDEWATER YOUTH SERVICES FOUNATION | $97,000 |
| TIDEWATER FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE | $92,300 |
| TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT | $80,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| THE MUSE WRITING CENTER | $62,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| TIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE VB JDRC | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $419k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FIFORKIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +48%
- HHHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $432k · revenue +53%
- TUTHE UNION MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $394k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TCTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +67%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $33k
- TRTHE REACH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Create more positive outcomes for at-risk youth aging into adult life.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
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…
We exist to create environments and opportunities in which holistic transformation takes place through relationships, experiences, and reflection.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
The mission of hartwood foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to provide services for persons with developmental disabilities by furnishing housing and training in independent living.
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.
Our vision is to end hopelessness among teenagers in the MidAtlantic Region. We work with teens to accomplish our mission through one on one mentoring, weekly support groups, and life skills training.
A community action agency that provides early child development for disadvantaged preschool children and provides housing, shelter, and services for the needy.
Friends of the portsmouth juvenile court(friends) has been working closely with portsmouth's juvenile and domestic relations court to prevent juvenile delinquency. committed to the belief that individuals actively involved in their…
Our mission: we advance educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.
Steadfastly providing hope for children and families through providing 24/7 support for clients and families, case management, consultation, and referrals to service providers in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ardx Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOURS Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH INVESTMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CONNECT WITH A WISH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds HERO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Quality of Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Ardx Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Norfolk Foundation Inc · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Dollar Bank Foundation · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · E C Wareheim Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation
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 organization The Agena Foundation Inc 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
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 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.