· 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.
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 2 grants below total $22,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of the VA Peninsula | $12,500 |
| Cheryl McLeskey Charitable Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 55% 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 17% of Virginia Beach Billfish 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. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ACACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +48%
- TMTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +81%
- CBC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- EVEastern Virginia Medical School Foundationone grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -46%
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +625%
- LWLZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -97%
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 vims foundation advises and assists the william & mary batten school of coastal & marine sciences and the virginia institute of marine science, promotes philanthropy to and stewards the philanthropic resources of the vims foundation,…
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
Crabs mission is to provide the thrill, freedom and therapeutic value of sailing to people with disabilities, recovering warriors, and youth from underserved communities. continued on schedule o
To engage in the promotion of educational, scientific, and charitable purposes permitted by law, facilitated through the fishing tournament.
Our mission is to be a viable non profit organization established solely for the purpose of generating and distributing funds to provide educational opportunities for qualified family members of United States Navy Chief Petty Officers.
The evms academic physicians and surgeons health services foundation (the "foundation") exists to further the mission and goals of the eastern virginia medical school ("evms"), a school of medicine within the virginia health sciencces at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fwm Memorial Marlin Open Inc co Cindy Sabol. 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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICKS FOR CHARITY ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds C BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cheryl P McLeskey Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERMAN'S DREAM INC (FORMERLY GUARDIAN ANGELS FUND INC) ↗
- Who funds WHEELS ON DECK INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds SENTARA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Help A Special Child Inc ↗
- Who funds Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stop Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds FWM Memorial Marlin Open Inc co Cindy Sabol ↗
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: 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
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 Virginia Beach Billfish 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.
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