· Public charity
Virginia Eye Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to the improvement of eye care and the prevention of blindness.
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of Virginia Eye Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hampton Roads Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Virginia Eye Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $80k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE | $24,000 |
| LIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK AND RESEARCH CENTER | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CARE INC | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LMLIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK & RESEARCH CENTER OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC3× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +23%
- EBEye Bank Association of America2× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +25%
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OMOLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK & RESEARCH CENTER OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds EVMS ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eye Bank Association of America ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CARE INC ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Eye Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Eye Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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