· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Agena Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Agena Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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