Skip to content
Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$233kYouth Development$141kHuman Services$108kHealth$86kArts & Culture$69kReligion$28kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $22,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$90k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Club of the VA Peninsula$12,500
Cheryl McLeskey Charitable Foundation$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WHEELS ON DECK: $14k → 6%WHEELS ON DECK: $11k → 6%Wheels on Deck Inc: $11k → 6%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $9k → 17%AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $8k → 17%An Achievable Dream: $6k → 17%Hope Haven Children's Home: $11k → 10%LZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATION: $11k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 17% of Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 86%.

Virginia Beach Billfish 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$679k · 17 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$679k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AC
    ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +48%
  • TM
    THE MARINERS' MUSEUM
    5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +81%
  • CB
    C BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • EV
    Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -46%
  • VB
    VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +625%
  • LW
    LZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -97%
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
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn

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,…

Education
2
Virginia Beach Adaptive Watersports Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
5
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
—
6
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business
Education
7
Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation

To engage in the promotion of educational, scientific, and charitable purposes permitted by law, facilitated through the fishing tournament.

Philanthropy
8
Chief Petty Officer Scholarship Fund Cposf

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.

Education
9
Evms Academic Physicians and Surgeons Health Services Foundation

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…

—
10
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project
Arts & Culture
12
Westhampton Yacht Squadron Scholarship Fund
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $173,847 · EducationACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $30,200 · EducationCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMYEastern Virginia Medical School Foundation: $14,247 · EducationEastern Virginia Medical School Fou…HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $11,750 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,750 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $80,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…WHEELS ON DECK INC: $35,947 · Human ServicesWHEELS ON D…AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $22,750 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVAB…LZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATION: $11,200 · Human ServicesLZ-GRACE WA…THE UNION MISSION: $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE UNION M…THE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $50,847 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC: $25,523 · HealthSENTARA HEALTH: $17,973 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $10,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION INC: $17,973 · OtherRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATI…Stop Abuse Inc: $14,000 · OtherStop Abuse IncWaterman's Dream: $7,900 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $7,123 · OtherC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC: $45,947 · OtherC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY…The Cheryl P McLeskey Charitable Foundation Inc: $38,000 · OtherThe Cheryl P McLeskey Charitab…FWM Memorial Marlin Open Inc co Cindy Sabol: $7,000 · OtherWATERMAN'S DREAM INC (FORMERLY GUARDIAN ANGELS FUND INC): $35,947 · OtherWATERMAN'S DREAM INC (FORMERLY…Help A Special Child Inc: $14,900 · OtherHelp A Special Child IncVIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATI…+1 more: $5,250 · OtherCHICKS FOR CHARITY: $50,847 · Public Benefit
Education$241,794Youth Development$80,500Human Services$80,397Arts & Culture$60,847Health$53,496Other$206,540Public Benefit$50,847

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $173,847 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $80,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCHICKS FOR CHARITY: $50,847 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $50,847 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetC BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC: $45,947 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetThe Cheryl P McLeskey Charitable Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWATERMAN'S DREAM INC (FORMERLY GUARDIAN ANGELS FUND INC): $35,947 over 3y, 82% of budgetWHEELS ON DECK INC: $35,947 over 3y, 47% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $30,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILIES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF TIDEWATER INC: $25,523 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $22,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSENTARA HEALTH: $17,973 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHelp A Special Child Inc: $14,900 over 2y, 11% of budgetEastern Virginia Medical School Foundation: $14,247 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStop Abuse Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLZ-GRACE WARRIOR RETREAT FOUNDATION: $11,200 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE UNION MISSION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFWM Memorial Marlin Open Inc co Cindy Sabol: $7,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

Chesapeake Bay Wine C…Tidewater Jewish Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…Langley for Families …Suffolk FoundationUnited Way of South H…Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthShearwater Foundation…The Ruffin Family Fou…The Charity Bowl Foot…Franklin Family Found…
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic FoundationVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Virginia Beach Billfish Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Virginia Beach Billfish’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home