· Private foundation
The Pruden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of The Pruden Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hampton Roads Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Pruden Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $203k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Virginia Legal Aid Society | $25,000 |
| For Kids | $25,000 |
| Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SUFFOLK MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Sentara Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Up Center | $10,000 |
| Western Tidewater Free Clinic | $6,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of SEVA | $5,000 |
| Nansemond River Preservation | $5,000 |
| SUFFOLK CHEER FUND | $5,000 |
| GENIEVE SHELTER | $4,800 |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $4,000 |
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, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FIFORKIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +48%
- VLVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +72%
- VWVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $100k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CSCHESAPEAKE SERVICE SYSTEMSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- SLST LUKES CHURCH MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
The mission of the Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote awareness of the history and culture of Suffolk and old Nansemond County for the education and enjoyment of present and future…
Access partnership facilitates the connection between those with health care needs and available resources. vision is that all residents of hampton roads can obtain the health care that they need to achieve personal wellness. focus is…
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
The mission of the southeast volusia county historical society is to collect and exhibit objects and documents related to the history of southeast volusia county, with particular emphasis on the settlement in 1768 and seeks to promote…
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
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 voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Scvp is a non-profit organization providing free, confidential, comprehensive, and trauma-informed services to those affected by sexual and domestic violence. the purpose of scvp is to empower those affected by sexual and domestic violence…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 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 HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENIEVE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC ↗
- Who funds Suffolk Cheer Fund ↗
- Who funds NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH INVESTMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WETLANDS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
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 · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · Birdsong Trust Fund · Beazley Foundation Incorporated
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 Pruden 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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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