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Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation

Virginia hospital research & education foundation (dba vhha foundation) strives to improve the health of virginians through collaboration, research and education for virginia's hospitals and health systems. Vhref provides continuing professional education programming to virginia health care leaders and professionals through conferences,…

$3.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
58%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,257
Largest grant, FY2025
$677,062
Organizations funded a year
17 to 31
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$6.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthReligionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving38$3.5M26%
FY202419$5.0M58%
FY202324$2.7M50%
FY202217$1.9M59%
FY202131$2.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$14MCrime & Legal$976kFood & Nutrition$431kCivil Rights$85kEducation$32k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ballad Health$1,555,46241%
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters$936,26140%
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority$831,0092n/a
Riverside Reg Med Staff Ed Found$764,8212n/a
Carilion Medical Center$675,72730%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$582,79511%
Valley Health System$512,14320%
Sentara Medical Group$442,72730%
Federation of Virginia Food Banks$431,25444%
Inova Health Care Services$336,95820%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ballad Health$1,555,46241%
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters$936,26140%
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority$831,0092n/a
Riverside Reg Med Staff Ed Found$764,8212n/a
Carilion Medical Center$675,72730%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$582,79511%
Valley Health System$512,14320%
Sentara Medical Group$442,72730%
Federation of Virginia Food Banks$431,25444%
Inova Health Care Services$336,95820%
Aux to Sentara Va Beach General Hospital$330,4661n/a
Bon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation$312,2212n/a
Chesapeake Regional Medical Group$258,00221%
Unite US$155,0002n/a
Carilion Clinic$127,50030%
Valley Health System$102,2662n/a
Bath Community Hospital$92,92510%
AHC Community Health Foundation$77,37720%
VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital$55,33520%
Maryview Hospital$55,0001n/a
Health Quality Innovators$49,73630%
Buchanan General Hospital$36,62730%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$31,5881n/a
Medical College of Va Foundation$22,50010%
Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital$18,85520%
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital$18,85520%
Bath Community Hospital Foundation$18,49820%
Wythe County Community Hospital$18,4982n/a
Hilltop Counseling$13,6601n/a
Carilion Giles Community Hospital$9,69010%
Bedford Memorial Hospital$9,2501n/a

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBallad Health: $1,555,462 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $936,261 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Medical Center: $675,727 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $582,795 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetValley Health System: $512,143 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSentara Medical Group: $442,727 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFederation of Virginia Food Banks: $431,254 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetInova Health Care Services: $336,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Regional Medical Group: $258,002 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCarilion Clinic: $127,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBath Community Hospital: $92,925 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAHC Community Health Foundation: $77,377 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVCU Health Tappahannock Hospital: $55,335 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Quality Innovators: $49,736 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBuchanan General Hospital: $36,627 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMedical College of Va Foundation: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarilion Tazewell Community Hospital: $18,855 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarilion Franklin Memorial Hospital: $18,855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBath Community Hospital Foundation: $18,498 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCarilion Giles Community Hospital: $9,690 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

American Cancer Socie…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Cancer Society IncGA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation

How much does Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation give?
Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $3,541,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (90%), Crime & Legal (6%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ballad Health ($1.6M), Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ($936k), Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority ($831k).
Does Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation based?
Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation is based in VA.

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 74 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.

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