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Vandeventer Black Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| J&A RACING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $1,500 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $1,250 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $500 |
| WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA | $500 |
| CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER | $500 |
| PIN MINISTRY | $500 |
| CHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| CORPORAL MARK GOYET MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $205 |
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 (FY18–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Vandeventer Black Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +90%
- JRJ&A Racing Foundation Inc4× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +390% · 100% of their budget
- SHSamaritan House Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
- TCTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
- HHRUHCAone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them
Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.
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…
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
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…
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sam and Reba Sandler Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. 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 17% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds J&A Racing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds PIN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Foundation ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAM AND REBA SANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STARBASE VICTORY INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHILDRENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds UDT SEAL Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS 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 · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Vandeventer Black Foundation 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.