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The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation
Sevacf enhances the quality of the life in south hampton roads by connecting people who care with causes large and small, managing charitable funds, and providing grants and scholarships for (continued on schedule o)
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $463,608 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $635,786 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,178 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CTR | $87,100 |
| ST PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FDN | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FOUR STATES CHRISTIAN MISSION INC | $23,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF HAMPTON ROAD | $20,000 |
| EAST PALO ALTO GREYHOUNDS YOUTH | $18,000 |
| EDMARC INC | $15,969 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF NORTH SUFFOLK VA | $15,000 |
| ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| OSCAR SMITH HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| CHURCHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,143 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESAPEAKE INC | $10,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOUSE OF PORTSMOUTH INC | $10,000 |
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, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $442k · revenue +121%- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA7× · 2017–2023 · $123k · revenue +90%
- EIEDMARC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- ACABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2023 · $115k · revenue +18%
VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES INCone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -11%- SGSHADY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To generate private and public funds for the children's museum of virginia, and to serve as a receiving agent for funds benefiting all of portsmouth's city museums and related projects, in partnership with the city of portsmouth.
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.
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 health care system, we improve health every day.
As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.
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…
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
The up center has provided a safety net for the hampton roads community for 142 years. presently, we impact approximately 10,000 people each year. our mission is to partner with children, families, and communities to improve lives and…
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Moms On a Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
69 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. 69 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 MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOUSE OF PORTSMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds True Freedom Inc ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BRIDGE BATTLEFIELD & WATERWAYS HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USO OF HAMPTON ROADS AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARBASE VICTORY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds THE PORTSMOUTH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Sentara Health · The Landmark Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Suffolk Foundation · Portsmouth General Hospital 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 Southeast Virginia Community 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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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