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Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$128kReligion$4kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $15,412, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,142,663 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,127,251 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,706
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS$7,706
HANDS ACROSS MATHEWS$7,706
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PARISH THRIFT SHOP FOOD PANTRY: $220 → 6%GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 7%BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 9%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS: $8k → 17%FISH INC: $320 → 7%BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $4k → 9%LINK OF HAMPTON RDS: $2k → 17%BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $279 → 9%ANTIOCH IMPROVEMENT MINISTRIES: $520 → 14%THRIVE PENINSULA: $940 → 17%FIRST BAPT CHURCH DENBIGHLOVE IN ACTION: $540 → 17%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 10 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
61

Total granted

$74k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+38%

Still filing today

20%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • VF
    VARIOUS FOOD DISTRIBUTION AGENCIES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k
  • BF
    BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +50%
  • LO
    LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • HA
    HANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITHgraduated
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k
  • EB
    EMPOWERED BELIEVERS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3k
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
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
2
Fresh Start Outreach Ministry Inc

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

Human Services
3
Emergency Christian Ministries Inc

A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.

Human Services
4
Bethany Village Inc
Human Services
5
Faith House Ministries

Community outreach

Religion
6
Haven Ministries Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
7
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
8
Reachout Ministry of Hope By a New and Living

Church religious services. to inspire life to people through spreading the gospel.

Crime & Legal
9
Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion
10
Church Women United

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…

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11
Anchor House Christian Ministries

Provide housing to low income

Human Services
12
Come to Him Ministries

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fish Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS FOOD DISTRIBUTION AGENCIES: $19,615 · OtherVARIOUS FOOD DISTRIBUTION AGENCIESGREATER JOY COGIC: $8,821 · OtherGREATER JOY COGICBREAKTHROUGH WORSHIP CENTER: $8,741 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH WORSHIP CENTERHANDS ACROSS MATHEWS: $7,706 · OtherHANDS ACROSS MATHEWSSAINTS OF RUNNEYMEDE HOLINESS CHURCH: $7,380 · OtherSAINTS OF RUNNEYMEDE HOLINESS CHURCHHANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITH: $5,750 · OtherHANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITHCOASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH: $4,510 · Other+55 more: $39,677 · Other+55 moreBREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,939 · Human ServicesBREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNIT…LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $9,286 · Human ServicesLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS I…GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $2,710 · Human ServicesGROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREAC…+5 more: $2,540 · Human Services+5 moreHELPING THE HOMELESS INC: $2,830 · Housing & ShelterHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,450 · Community Improvement
Other$102,200Human Services$28,475Housing & Shelter$2,830Community Improvement$1,450

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,939 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $9,286 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ACROSS MATHEWS INTERFAITH: $5,750 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHELPING THE HOMELESS INC: $2,830 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $2,710 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,620 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO: $940 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFISH INC: $320 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARISH THRIFT SHOP INC: $220 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVERSABILITY RESOURCES INC: $170 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Langley for Families …Peninsula Community F…Sentara HealthUnited Way of the Vir…Bernardine Franciscan…Good News FoundationWilliamsburg Communit…Food Lion Feeds Chari…Dominion Energy Chari…The Papa John's Found…The Community Foundat…Raymond James Charita…
Langley for Families - the Foundation of LfcuVA27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peninsula Foodbank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Peninsula Foodbank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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 72 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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