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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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$677k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $946k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
$13,257
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BALLAD HEALTH: $1.2M → 15%BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $583k → 16%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM: $236k → 6%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $249k → 9%BON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $428k → 9%WARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $93k → 10%SENTARA MEDICAL GROUP: $283k → 10%BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $93k → 13%PAGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $93k → 13%SOUTHAMPTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $93k → 15%VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $454k → 16%RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $411k → 17%RUSSELL COUNTY HOSPITAL: $93k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS: $336k → 19%SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $93k → 20%VCU HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITY: $776k → 22%DICKENSON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $93k → 23%BALLAD HEALTH: $138k → 15%INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM: $101k → 6%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL: $166k → 9%BON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $168k → 9%RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $354k → 17%SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL: $311k → 19%VCU HEALTH INJURY & VIOLENCE: $380k → 22%LONESOME PINE HOSPITAL: $93k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $119k → 15%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL: $148k → 9%SENTARA VIRGINIA BEACH GENERAL AUXILIARY: $330k → 10%RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $292k → 17%SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL: $299k → 19%VCU INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM: $333k → 22%BALLAD HEALTH: $101k → 15%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $110k → 9%SENTARA VIRGINIA BEACH GENERAL HOSP: $239k → 10%RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL: $277k → 17%SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL: $287k → 19%VCU INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM: $283k → 22%CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $109k → 9%RIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $219k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF KINGS DAUGHTERS: $236k → 19%VCU HEALTH: $111k → 22%SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL: $224k → 19%FEDERATION OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANKS: $171k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS: $194k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS: $171k → 19%VCU INJURY & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM: $677k → 22%BON SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $265k → 22%FEDERATION OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANKS: $175k → 22%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 39 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
25

Total granted

$12M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+18%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • BH
    Ballad Health
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +43%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
    4× · 2022–2025 · $936k · revenue +29%
  • RR
    RIVERSIDE REG MED STAFF ED FOUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $765k · revenue +502%

Funded once

  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $583k · revenue 0%
  • VH
    VCU HEALTH INJURY & VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $380k
  • AT
    AUX TO SENTARA VA BEACH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $330k · revenue +18%
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
Wellmont Health System

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.

Health
2
Carilion Services Inc

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.

Health
3
Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital

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.

Health
4
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

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.

Health
5
Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital Inc

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.

Health
6
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
7
Smyth County Community Hospital

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.

Health
8
Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Bon Secours - St Francis Medical Center Inc

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.

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10
Chesapeake Hospital Corporation

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…

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11
Baptist Health Richmond Inc

To provide quality health care by a team of highly-skilled physicians & staff through nurturing, personalized services.

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12
Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VCU INJURY & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM: $1,292,347 · OtherVCU INJURY & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITY: $831,009 · OtherVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITYIndividual grant recipient: $809,382 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIVERSIDE REG MED STAFF ED FOUND: $764,821 · OtherRIVERSIDE REG MED STAFF ED FOUNDBON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $595,576 · OtherBON SECOURS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONRIVERSIDE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $511,295 · OtherFederation of Virginia Food Banks: $431,254 · OtherVCU HEALTH INJURY & VIOLENCE: $380,240 · OtherCHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $358,103 · Other+45 more: $4,003,156 · Other+45 moreBallad Health: $1,555,462 · HealthBallad HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $936,261 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Dau…Carilion Medical Center: $675,727 · HealthCarilion Medical CenterVALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $512,143 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMSENTARA MEDICAL GROUP: $442,727 · HealthSENTARA MEDICAL GROUPINOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $336,958 · HealthINOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICESCHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL GROUP: $258,002 · Health+11 more: $514,648 · Health+11 moreBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $582,795 · ReligionMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Education
Other$9,977,183Health$5,231,928Religion$582,795Education$22,500

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

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
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 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.

    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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