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Warden Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $6,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDRE | $6,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SE VIRGINIA | $6,000 |
| FOR KIDS INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF KINGS DAUGHTE | $5,000 |
| CHKDCHILD ABUSE CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS | $5,000 |
| JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $5,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $4,000 |
| RECOVERY FOR LIFE | $4,000 |
| SETON YOUTH SHELTERS | $4,000 |
| CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $4,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SE VIRGINIA | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +90%
- SMST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +56%
- JOJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- CACHKDCHILD ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $4k
- JMJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +87%
- ZAZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +31%
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.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.
Safe harbor provides the support that survivors of sexual and domestic violence and human trafficking need to overcome their crisis and to transform their lives.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.
Hopetree family services is a nonprofit human services organization providing behavioral health, child welfare, and community based support services to children, families, and adults. programs are designed to prevent unnecessary out of…
Pin ministry exists to connect people experiencing homelessness to a loving god who will heal and restore hope.
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
To provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, by empowering individuals, streghening families and building community through faith and service.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Governor's School for the Arts Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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 FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds Recovery for the City ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST COLUMBA ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEACH HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Peace ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds EDMARC INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Townebank Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kenneth a Hall and Patricia a Hall Charitable Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Pruden 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 Warden Family 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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