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The McWaters Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$591kReligion$420kHuman Services$140kEducation$98kRecreation & Sports$93kArts & Culture$86kHealth$69kInternational$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$520k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOSAIC CHURCH$40,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$16,000
NORFOLK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$7,100
ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
TOGO NETWORK$5,000
RECOVERY FOR LIFE$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%AMERICAN WORLD ADOPTION: $5k → 6%PIN MINISTRY: $10k → 10%WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%TOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TOGO NETWORK: $20k → 10%TOGO NETWORK: $18k → 10%TOGO NETWORK: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 38 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
58

Total granted

$1.4M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME
    3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +65%
  • VB
    VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +80%
  • MM
    MONTERO MEDICAL MISSIONS INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +36% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • VE
    VIRGINIA EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • CB
    CHARLES BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TR
    THRIVE RESCUE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -59%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Virginias One Church One Child Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
4
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
5
Beachglass Ministries Inc

To inspire, motivate and facilitate the next generation of Christian missionaries by producing radio dramas telling true missionary stories and speaking at conferences

Religion
6
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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…

Health
7
The Vimm Fund World Missions Dp Cog

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…

International
8
The Bair Foundation of Virginia

To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.

Education
9
Virginia Beach Library Foundation

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.

Education
10
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
11
Chesapeake Beach Fire & Volunteer Rescue Dept Inc

Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, virginia.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CBWC FOUNDATION: $315,799 · OtherCBWC FOUNDATIONUSO OF HAMPTONS ROADS: $195,000 · OtherUSO OF HAMPTONS ROADSTRINITY CHURCH: $171,200 · OtherTRINITY CHURCHTRINITY CHURCH (1DIED4ALL): $106,000 · OtherTRINITY CHURCH (1DIED4ALL)NORFOLK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $89,100 · OtherNORFOLK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL+63 more: $427,520 · Other+63 moreTHE GIVE BACK COMMUNITY INC: $40,000 · HealthVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · HealthCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC: $16,000 · HealthRecovery for the City: $10,500 · HealthKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN: $6,700 · Health+7 more: $8,350 · HealthTOGONETWORK: $43,000 · Human ServicesCAREER GEAR INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesPIN MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesAMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME: $60,500 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN NORFOLK FUND: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Norfolk Public Library: $17,500 · Arts & CultureVirginia Beach Art Center Inc: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $16,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · PhilanthropyST MICHAELS CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $30,000 · Animals
Other$1,304,619Health$100,050Human Services$92,000Recreation & Sports$75,500Arts & Culture$54,500Philanthropy$35,500Animals$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME: $60,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetTOGONETWORK: $43,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE GIVE BACK COMMUNITY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONTERO MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $26,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetCAREER GEAR INC: $21,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Norfolk Public Library: $17,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetVirginia Beach Art Center Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRecovery for the City: $10,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFrontier Horizon Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSaving Moses: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPIN MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN: $6,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAELS CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH FELLOWS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN NORFOLK FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAWAKEN RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEN OF FAITH: $1,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA MINISTRY OF TIDEWATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOBY'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT FOUNDATIO: $1,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Virginia Beach Art Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Recovery for the City ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Frontier Horizon Inc ↗
  • Who funds Saving Moses ↗
  • Who funds PIN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network 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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Sentara HealthThe Charity Bowl Foot…The Southeast Virgini…Beazley Foundation In…The Blocker FoundationLangley for Families …Dominion Energy Chari…Chesapeake Bay Wine C…Curtis Family Foundat…Franklin Family Found…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA43× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McWaters Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McWaters Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The McWaters Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McWaters Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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