· Public charity
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $15,412 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,142,663 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,127,251 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS | $7,706 |
| HANDS ACROSS MATHEWS | $7,706 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those 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 +50% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- VFVARIOUS FOOD DISTRIBUTION AGENCIES4× · 2017–2020 · $20k
- BFBREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +50%
- LOLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HAHANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITHgraduated5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%
- CCCOASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH5× · 2021–2025 · $5k
- EBEMPOWERED BELIEVERS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $3k
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.
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet
A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.
Community outreach
Providing hope to those in need in queen anne's county by supplying shelter, clothing, food, and support. programs include a homeless shelter, daily thread thrift shop, emergency food pantry, resource center, warehouse with job training,…
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Community outreach and church services
Church religious services. to inspire life to people through spreading the gospel.
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
Provide community outreach to those in need of food, clothing, and other basic necessities.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fish Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sand Lake Baptist Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 72 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 BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds HELPING THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN BRETHREN ST PHILLIPS ↗
- Who funds FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DENBIGH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER AND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Antioch Improvement Ministries Inc ↗
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: Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Sentara Health · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Good News Foundation · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundati · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Papa John's Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Peninsula Foodbank 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.