· Private foundation
The Townsend Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN SHORE CHAPEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| LIL ROAR CAT RESCUE | $6,000 |
| UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FIGHT CF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC | $2,500 |
| LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW | $2,500 |
| SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
| REACH INC | $1,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT INC | $1,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FORKIDS INC | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PR | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +68%
- CHCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +68%
- SVSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- KBKEVIN & BRITTANY KISNER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -78%
- VGVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +177%
- HRHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOM ASSOC incone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
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…
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
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…
The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 49 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 US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lil Roar Cat Rescue ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW ↗
- Who funds KEVIN & BRITTANY KISNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIGHT CF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER SETON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN) ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CULEBRA ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Monarch Charities Inc · Sterzing Charitable Trust
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 Townsend 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.
- Comfort Cases 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.