· Public charity
United Way of South Hampton Roads
UWSHR's mission is to bring people and resources together to solve problems too big for anyone to solve alone.
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.
The 60 grants below total $8,150,487 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,111,697 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,961,210 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $637k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Up Center | $705,932 |
| Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia Inc | $688,329 |
| ForKids | $648,621 |
| YMCA of South Hampton Roads | $526,796 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Virginia | $439,610 |
| YWCA of South Hampton Roads | $379,649 |
| CHIP-Chldren's Health Investment Program | $358,853 |
| Urban League of Hampton Roads | $352,152 |
| Childrens Harbor | $345,275 |
| Urban Renewal Center | $302,786 |
| Southside Boys and Girls Club | $205,368 |
| Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads | $175,324 |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore | $160,952 |
| Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast | $125,677 |
| Habitat for Humanity of South Hampton Roads | $125,639 |
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 (FY17–25, $18.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
223 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 169 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +31%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +141%
- PAPLACES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NPNORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $231k
- HFHEB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $197k · 99% of their budget
- RLRECK LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $170k · 43% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Men of Faith. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
328 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. 328 of the 390 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia ↗
- Who funds PLACES AND PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBINC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH INVESTMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Hunton Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISE W EGGLESTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AREAWIDE MODEL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Virginia Peninsula ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP & EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds IDA BARBOUR EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN RENEWAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF S HAMPTON ROADS ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds TWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
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 · Sentara Health · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · The Blocker Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporated · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Miller Oil Foundation · Give Back 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 United Way of South Hampton Roads 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.