· Private foundation
The Givens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
Anchored by a single position: about 90% of reported assets are held in Truist 8880.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA | $25,000 |
| PRIORITY AUTOMOTIVE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of The Givens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +59%- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%
- CHCHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- CRCHESAPEAKE REGINAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- VVBSPCAone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TCTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION - UVA ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The university of virginia law school alumni association's primary exempt purpose is to provide alumni with access to the university of virginia school of law, its facilities, resources, and people and to foster an interest in its…
The mission of the virginia sports hall of fame foundation is to serve as a non-profit resource which celebrates athletic excellence in the commonwealth of virginia, while inspiring the public through programming and engaging entertainment.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The virginia dental association is a membership organization for dentists licensed in virginia. its purpose is to promote the practice of dentistry.
The purpose of the VMI Alumni Association is to organize the alumni of VMI into one general body.
The foundation is organized and operated exclusively for the charitable and educational purposes of furthering the educational programs, facilities, and opportunities at chesapeake college, by providing financial resources to meet the…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, virginia.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER STRELITZ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
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 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Givens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Givens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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