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Warden Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$246kHousing & Shelter$163kHuman Services$153kFood & Nutrition$104kArts & Culture$62kInternational$45kReligion$21kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOODBANK OF SE VIRGINIA$6,000
ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDRE$6,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$6,000
UNION MISSION$5,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF KINGS DAUGHTE$5,000
HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS$5,000
FOR KIDS INC$5,000
CHKDCHILD ABUSE CENTER$5,000
JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER$5,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$4,000
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER$4,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$4,000
RECOVERY FOR LIFE$4,000
SETON YOUTH SHELTERS$4,000
CHKDANNUAL FUND$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUMANKIND: $2k → 8%HUMANKIND: $2k → 8%HUMANKIND: $2k → 8%HUMANKIND: $2k → 8%HUMANKIND: $2k → 8%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%THE UP CENTER: $1k → 19%THE UP CENTER: $1k → 19%THE UP CENTER: $1k → 19%HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 10%THE UP CENTER: $1k → 19%THE UP CENTER: $1k → 19%HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS: $3k → 10%UNION MISSION: $5k → 19%UNION MISSION: $5k → 19%UNION MISSION: $5k → 19%UNION MISSION: $5k → 19%UNION MISSION: $5k → 19%UNION MISSION: $4k → 19%UNION MISSION: $3k → 19%UNION MISSION: $3k → 19%UNION MISSION: $3k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $3k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $3k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $2k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $2k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $2k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $2k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $1k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $1k → 19%TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING: $1k → 19%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$843k · 43 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
6

Total granted

$843k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+87%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FO
    FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +90%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +56%
  • JO
    JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHKDCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • JM
    JOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +87%
  • ZA
    ZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +31%
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
Transitions Family Violence Services

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…

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2
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
3
Safe Harbor

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.

Human Services
4
Virtua Medical Group Pa

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…

Health
5
Coastal Hospice

Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.

Human Services
6
Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services

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…

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7
Pin Ministry

Pin ministry exists to connect people experiencing homelessness to a loving god who will heal and restore hope.

Human Services
8
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

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.

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9
Richmond County Hospice Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Commonwealth Catholic Charities

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.

Human Services
11
Hospice Care Corporation D/B/a West Virginia Caring

To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.

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12
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.

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

29 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. 29 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF KINGS DAUGHTE: $52,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF KINGS DAUGHTEST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC: $44,000 · OtherST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INCEQUIKIDSEQUIVETS: $33,500 · OtherEQUIKIDSEQUIVETSCHKDCHILD ABUSE CENTER: $30,000 · OtherCHKDCHILD ABUSE CENTERCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $26,500 · OtherCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERTOGETHER WE CAN: $26,500 · OtherTOGETHER WE CANCHKDANNUAL FUND: $23,000 · OtherSETON YOUTH SHELTERS: $23,000 · OtherTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $21,500 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH CASA INC: $21,000 · OtherST COLUMBA ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $20,500 · OtherTHE STOREHOUSE: $20,500 · OtherBEACH HEALTH CLINIC INC: $17,500 · Other+20 more: $113,000 · Other+20 moreJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $41,000 · Housing & ShelterJUDEO-CHRISTIA…FORKIDS INC: $40,500 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS INCSamaritan House Inc: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan Hous…THE UNION MISSION: $38,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNION …TIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesTIDEWATER …PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $13,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERI…HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HO…CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FA…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $34,500 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 · InternationalPhysicians For Peace: $10,000 · InternationalFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $49,000 · Food & NutritionRecovery for the City: $30,500 · HealthABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $9,500 · HealthEDMARC INC: $8,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $34,000 · Religion
Other$472,500Housing & Shelter$112,500Human Services$79,500International$54,500Food & Nutrition$49,000Health$49,000Religion$34,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $49,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC: $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $41,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $40,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION MISSION: $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $34,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $34,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRecovery for the City: $30,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetST COLUMBA ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC: $20,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBEACH HEALTH CLINIC INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTIDEWATER PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $15,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Peace: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetABILITY CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $9,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDMARC INC: $8,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Beach Art Center Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOY MINISTRIES EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $1,000 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 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 EDMARC INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Beach Art Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…United Way of South H…Sentara HealthTownebank FoundationThe Blocker FoundationPatricia and Douglas …Langley for Families …Dominion Energy Chari…Kenneth a Hall and Pa…The Landmark Foundati…Beazley Foundation In…The Pruden Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA44.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Warden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warden Family Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Warden Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Warden Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 50 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-PF 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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