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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.

$11k
Granted FY2021
12
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$20kFood & Nutrition$8kPublic Benefit$7kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$6kRecreation & Sports$5kEducation$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$354k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $500 → 7%DISABILITY LAW CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $250 → 9%PIN MINISTRY: $500 → 10%PN MINISTRY: $500 → 10%PIN MINISTRY: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Vandeventer Black Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Vandeventer Black Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 11 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$42k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+15%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
    5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +90%
  • JR
    J&A Racing Foundation Inc
    4× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +390% · 100% of their budget
  • SH
    Samaritan House Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
  • TC
    TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • H
    HRUHCA
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

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.

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4
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
5
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
6
SeniorNavigatorcom

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,…

Community Improvement
7
Virginia Network for Victims and Witnesses of Crime Inc

The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them

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8
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association

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.

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9
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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
10
The Virginia Home

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…

Health
11
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
12
Virginia Community Development Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMPTON ROADS SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: $13,500 · OtherHAMPTON ROADS SURVIVORS OF SUICIDEIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCHRUHCA: $2,500 · OtherHRUHCATHE SAM AND REBA SANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,250 · OtherSamaritan House Foundation: $1,500 · Other+14 more: $7,138 · Other+14 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart As…THE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthTHE EGGLESTON SER…Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $2,000 · HealthChildren's Hospit…VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $375 · HealthFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF S…J&A Racing Foundation Inc: $6,100 · Public BenefitJ&A Racing …UDT SEAL Association Inc: $500 · Public BenefitUDT SEAL As…Samaritan House Inc: $2,750 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $2,750 · Recreation & SportsWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $500 · Recreation & SportsPIN MINISTRY: $1,500 · Human ServicesCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $500 · Human ServicesDISABILITY LAW CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $250 · Human Services
Other$31,388Health$9,875Food & Nutrition$7,500Public Benefit$6,600Housing & Shelter$4,250Recreation & Sports$3,250Human Services$2,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJ&A Racing Foundation Inc: $6,100 over 4y, 100% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EGGLESTON SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPIN MINISTRY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARBASE VICTORY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUDT SEAL Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEBRIDGE SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Townebank FoundationUnited Way of South H…Langley for Families …The Southeast Virgini…Sentara HealthDominion Energy Chari…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vandeventer Black Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vandeventer Black Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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