· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of VIRGINIA HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $946k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VCU INJURY & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM | $677,062 |
| RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $411,035 |
| CARILION MEDICAL CENTER | $353,792 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $335,869 |
| Individual grant recipient | $299,102 |
| BON SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $265,221 |
| INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM | $235,964 |
| FEDERATION OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANKS | $171,370 |
| BALLAD HEALTH | $138,091 |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $110,011 |
| AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $67,618 |
| VALLEY HEALTH | $58,372 |
| CARILION CLINIC | $55,000 |
| MARYVIEW HOSPITAL LLC | $55,000 |
| VCU HEALTH SYSTEM | $54,978 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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
- BHBallad Health4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +43%
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters4× · 2022–2025 · $936k · revenue +29%
- RRRIVERSIDE REG MED STAFF ED FOUND2× · 2024–2025 · $765k · revenue +502%
Funded once
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundationone grant, 2024 · $583k · revenue 0%
- VHVCU HEALTH INJURY & VIOLENCEone grant, 2023 · $380k
- ATAUX TO SENTARA VA BEACH GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $330k · revenue -3%
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.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. As a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
The organization operates an acute care general hospital. The hospital has a community based Board of Directors, has an open medical staff, operates an emergency room providing care to all regardless of ability to pay, and provides…
To provide quality health care by a team of highly-skilled physicians & staff through nurturing, personalized services.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Riverside Reg Med Staff Ed Found. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
25 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. 25 of the 74 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 Ballad Health ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE REG MED STAFF ED FOUND ↗
- Who funds Carilion Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SENTARA MEDICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds Federation of Virginia Food Banks ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AUX TO SENTARA VA BEACH GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic ↗
- Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
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: American Cancer Society Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hospital Research and Education 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.