· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of the Virginia Peninsula funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Virginia Peninsula. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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