· Public charity
United Way of the Virginia Peninsula
The mission of the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula is to improve the quality of life for people in our community by funding programs in the areas of Education, Health, and Self-Sufficiency.
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 47 grants below total $2,338,538 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,432,658 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,094,120 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 $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRIVE Peninsula Inc | $204,160 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the VA Peninsula | $188,673 |
| Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia | $163,939 |
| Virginia Peninsula Foodbank | $152,817 |
| Center for Child & Family Services | $140,374 |
| VersAbility Resources | $140,278 |
| Peake Childhood Center | $137,466 |
| Transitions Family Violence Services | $132,312 |
| LINK of Hampton Roads | $95,509 |
| County of York | $75,739 |
| Child Development Resources | $74,239 |
| American Red Cross of Coastal Virginia | $64,152 |
| Peninsula Agency on Aging | $60,608 |
| YMCA of the Virginia Peninsulas | $54,240 |
| Lackey Clinic | $51,425 |
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, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- CFCENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
- VPVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
- VRVERSABILITY RESOURCES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $883k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue -2%
- NKNew Kent Dept of Social Services2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
- RHRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
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.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
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…
Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling, and financial assistance.
To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. the organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.
To identify community needs, connect people with solutions and improve lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is 200 Plus Men Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 64 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS FAMILY VIOLENCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VERSABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER VIRGINIA PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER WILLIAMSBURG ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULA AND GREATER WILLIAMSBURG ↗
- Who funds RURAL HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MATHEWS CARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BACON STREET YOUTH AND FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds NATASHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG AREA FAITH IN ACTION I ↗
- Who funds C WALDO SCOTT CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN GROUP ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
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: Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sentara Health · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Townebank 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 the Virginia Peninsula 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.
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.