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The Townsend Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$76kAnimals$33kHuman Services$26kReligion$25kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$15kEnvironment$14kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$421k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC$2,500
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC$2,500
LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW$2,500
HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
LITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH INC$1,000
ST MARYS HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC$1,000
FORKIDS INC$1,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE INC$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$1,000
VIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PR$1,000
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES$1,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COMFORT CASES INC: $3k → 8%COMFORT CASES INC: $1k → 8%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC: $1k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC: $1k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC: $1k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC: $1k → 19%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
MA
OR
IA
CA
UT
VA
MD
SC
DC
AL
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 33 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
9

Total granted

$224k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +68%
  • CH
    CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +68%
  • SV
    SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • KB
    KEVIN & BRITTANY KISNER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -78%
  • VG
    VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +177%
  • HR
    HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOM ASSOC inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

1
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
2
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
3
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
4
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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5
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
6
Virginia Network for Victims and Witnesses of Crime Inc

The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them

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7
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
9
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
10
Virginia Community Food Connections

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Children's Home Society of Virginia

The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.

Human Services
12
Safe Harbor

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 49 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $28,000 · EducationCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL IN…REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN): $4,000 · EducationREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENR…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationEASTERN SHORE CHAPEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH - CHURCH PANTRY: $24,850 · OtherEASTERN SHORE CHAPEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH - CHU…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 · OtherYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $4,000 · OtherMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC: $4,000 · OtherST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC: $4,000 · OtherLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $10,000 · OtherLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOWFORKIDS INC: $4,000 · OtherSamaritan House Inc: $4,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRA…HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,500 · Other+13 more: $21,000 · Other+13 moreLil Roar Cat Rescue: $22,500 · AnimalsLil Roar Cat R…VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $4,000 · AnimalsVIRGINIA BEACH…ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER: $2,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESOURC…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF CULEBRA ANIMALS INC: $1,500 · AnimalsKEVIN & BRITTANY KISNER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyCARRY THE LOAD: $1,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,000 · Civil RightsVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $4,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesDC ABORTION FUND: $1,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthFIGHT CF FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · Health
Education$70,500Other$97,850Animals$31,500Philanthropy$15,000Civil Rights$13,000Human Services$13,000Health$12,000

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 budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLil Roar Cat Rescue: $22,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKEVIN & BRITTANY KISNER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFIGHT CF FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN): $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CULEBRA ANIMALS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER F & RU INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.

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 HealthDominion Energy Chari…The Landmark Foundati…The Blocker FoundationChesapeake Bay Wine C…Langley for Families …Townebank FoundationTidewater Jewish Foun…Monarch Charities IncSterzing Charitable T…
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA41.8× affinity18 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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