· Private foundation
The Jo Melchor Hackney and John H Hackney Jr Family Foundation
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| EVMS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ELIZABETH RIVER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| RAINBOW RIDERS | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN NORFOLK COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE UNITED SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $5,000 |
| LITTLE THEATER OF NORFOLK | $5,000 |
| HURRAH PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE HAMPTON ROADS | $3,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NORFOLK | $250 |
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 (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Jo Melchor Hackney and John H Hackney Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ODOLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue +13%
- NBNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
- LTLITTLE THEATRE OF NORFOLK2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- AFATO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- OAODU ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
Mjh foundation provides investment and management services for martha jefferson hospital, a non-profit organization which provides healthcare to the community.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…
As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF NORFOLK ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake United Soccer Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK TOURISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jo Melchor Hackney and John H Hackney Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jo Melchor Hackney and John H Hackney Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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