Virginia · Public charity
Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation
To engage in the promotion of educational, scientific, and charitable purposes permitted by law, facilitated through the fishing tournament.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $23k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $90k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $90k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $98k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $132k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $178k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $171k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $29k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access College Foundation | $173,847 | 7 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula Inc | $80,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicks for Charity | $50,847 | 5 | 100% |
| The Mariners' Museum | $50,847 | 5 | 0% |
| C Barker Champions for Charity Inc | $45,947 | 5 | 6% |
| The Cheryl P McLeskey Charitable Foundation Inc | $38,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Waterman's Dream Inc (Formerly Guardian Angels Fund Inc) | $35,947 | 3 | 82% |
| Wheels on Deck Inc | $35,947 | 3 | 47% |
| Chesapeake Bay Academy | $30,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Families of Autistic Children of Tidewater Inc | $25,523 | 3 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Suffolk Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Shearwater Foundation Inc · The Ruffin Family Foundation · The Charity Bowl Football Game · Franklin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation
- How much does Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation give?
- Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $22,500, out of $57,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (18%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Access College Foundation ($174k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula Inc ($81k), Chicks for Charity ($51k).
- Does Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation based?
- Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation is based in VA.
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