· 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 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 · 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 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| The Up Center | $10,000 |
| SUFFOLK MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $10,000 |
| Sentara Foundation | $10,000 |
| Western Tidewater Free Clinic | $6,000 |
| Nansemond River Preservation | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of SEVA | $5,000 |
| SUFFOLK CHEER FUND | $5,000 |
| GENIEVE SHELTER | $4,800 |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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 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 WETLANDS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAKEFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pruden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pruden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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