· Private foundation
The McWaters Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOSAIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $16,000 |
| NORFOLK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,100 |
| TOGO NETWORK | $5,000 |
| ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RECOVERY FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCH | $4,200 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH CASA | $1,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH (1DIED4ALL) | $1,000 |
| CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PLEIN AIR | $500 |
| HOT SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TCTHE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +65%
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +54%
- MMMONTERO MEDICAL MISSIONS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +36% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- VEVIRGINIA EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $12k
- TRTHRIVE RESCUEone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -59%
- FHFrontier Horizon Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -50%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our mission is to reduce the numbers of children in the foster care system through adoption outreach education recruitment and support. We seek to increase permanency opportunities for Virginias waiting children. Additionally we aim to…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
To inspire, motivate and facilitate the next generation of Christian missionaries by producing radio dramas telling true missionary stories and speaking at conferences
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
Volunteers in medical missions will minister to the physical and spiritual needs of children and adults in developing countries throughout the world and will provide opportunities for christian medical professionals and other volunteers to…
To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.
The virginia beach libary foundation's mission is to secure, manage, and invest publicly raised funds, gifts, and bequests in support of virginia beach libraries.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, virginia.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Men of Faith. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 34% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 100 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 THE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME ↗
- Who funds TOGONETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE BACK COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds MONTERO MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER GEAR INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norfolk Public Library ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Recovery for the City ↗
- Who funds THRIVE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Frontier Horizon Inc ↗
- Who funds PIN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Saving Moses ↗
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 · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · The Charity Bowl Football Game · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Curtis Family Foundation · Franklin Family 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 McWaters Family Foundation 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.
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.
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