How much did UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS grant in FY2024?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS reported 67 grants totaling $7,201,454 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS based?

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS is based in VA.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS

Uwshr conducts fundraising campaigns, acts as an administrative agent, and distributes funds to participating area organizations according to donor designations and fund distribution committee recommendations.

$7.2M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$786k

Largest

01What you fund

0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$14MHealth$3.6MYouth Development$3.2MHousing & Shelter$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.5MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$812kAnimals$634kRecreation & Sports$611kOther$19M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

idacorpsisle wightsupportive

2020

idatidewater youthdisabilitiesjuvenilecourtagesfacility

2021

artbeachanimalsdeliverchoiroral healthinnovative

2022

adults autismbeacharttreatmentchastheatricalawareness

2023

participantsparentsmnpnbrandbusinessesblack chamberchamber commerce

2024

awardedgrants awardedundercompetenciesone-to-oneparentsmnpndementia

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k27 grants · $834k
$50k–250k35 grants · $3.6M
$250k+5 grants · $2.8M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$66M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE UP CENTER$786,431
YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$649,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SE VA$500,000
YWCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$436,853
CHILDREN'S HARBOR$398,000
SOUTHSIDE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$233,795
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HAMPTON ROADS$199,320
CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN VA$177,500
RECK LEAGUE$170,000
CHIP-CHLDREN'S HEALTH INVESTMENT PROGRAM$167,970
LEAGUE OF ADVOCATES$150,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$146,740
YESUSA TRANSFORMATION CITIES$145,000
FORKIDS$135,000
SALVATION ARMY HAMPTON ROADS AREA$130,300

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $13.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$43M · 168 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

168 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

168

179

Total granted

$43M

$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+8%

Still filing today

91%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TU
THE UP CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +31%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS SOUTHEASTERN VA
7× · 2018–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +160%
CH
CHILDREN'S HARBOR
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +48%

Funded once

NP
NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2021 · $231k
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER WILLIAMSBURG CO UNITED WAY OF THE VA PENINSULA
one grant, 2018 · $223k
HF
HEB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $197k · 99% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Way of Virginia's Eastern

United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

Philanthropy

United Way of Virginia

The mission of united way of virginia is to provide equitable and meaningful leadership in advocacy, policy influence, capacity building and philanthropy for all united ways in virginia.

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Virginia Community Action

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

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

Access Partnership

Access partnership is a virginia not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve access to health care for people in need in the hampton roads. our focus is strengthening the safety net system of care, identifying gaps in service and…

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United Way of Central Virginia Inc

To mobilize the compassionate power of our community to improve the quality of lives in central virginia.

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Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Education

Transitions Family Violence Services

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…

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Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

Virginia Hemophilia Foundation

Support for individuals impacted by inherited bleeding disorders.

Human Services

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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Charlottesville and the most unlike its peers is Sentara Health. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%4/363

the rest of the field

15%

1,183/7,793

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.

05the grantee network

303 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

276/303

Grantees still filing

206/303

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,141,808Human Services$13,930,341Health$3,589,538Youth Development$3,232,560Housing & Shelter$2,900,510Philanthropy$2,481,654Education$1,375,489

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.

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA239.7× affinity164 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Langley for Families - · The Blocker Foundation · Townebank Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Federal Employees Support For · The Landmark Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Give Back Foundation · Miller Oil 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEB FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +98% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832484992 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEB FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of South Hampton Roads?

Find your warmest path to United Way of South Hampton Roads through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

303 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of South Hampton Roads?

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UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

303 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of South Hampton Roads?

More from the funding graph