Virginia · Nonprofit
Begin Again Foundation
Begin Again Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,618,458 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Begin Again Foundation does
Mission
The Begin Again Foundation's mission is to save lives through education and awareness of sepsis and toxic shock syndrome, while providing critical financial assistance to survivors and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through a grant to the Patient Advocate Foundation, the Begin Again Foundation helped provide critical support to patients with a physician-verified diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, and/or Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS). Assistance was offered to help cover essential expenses such as medication, transportation, utilities, and groceries.In addition, the Begin Again Foundations Bereavement Fund awards $1,000 grants to grieving families to help with the costs of laying to rest a loved one who has passed away from sepsis, ARDS or TSS.The Begin Again Amputee Fund also awards $1,000 grants to survivors of sepsis, ADS, and Toxic Shock Syndrome to help offset expenses related to rehabilitation, prosthetics, and long-term recovery.
$395,377 spentof which $316,160 as grants64% of program spendingThrough targeted grants to the Childrens Hospital of the King's Daughters, the Begin Again Foundation has provided vital assistance to families of hospitalized patients experiencing severe hardship. These grants are intended to help cover essential expenses such as transportation, meals, medications, household utilities, and more.
$93,792 spentof which $75,000 as grants15% of program spendingThe Begin Again Foundations Toxic Shock Prevention Program is dedicated to providing access to safe feminine hygiene products for women experiencing housing insecurity across the country, along with vital education on Toxic Shock Syndrome.
$58,759 spentof which $46,986 as grants10% of program spendingThe Begin Again Foundation made a contribution to the Leila Rose Foundation, an Australian tax-exempt organization dedicated to supporting families affected by rare childhood cancers. To learn more, please visit leilarosefoundation.org.
$37,517 spentof which $30,000 as grants6% of program spendingThe Begin Again Foundation provides support to families identified by the Monash Childrens Hospital (MCH) Social Work Department as experiencing demonstrable hardship. Following an assessment to determine each familys specific needs, the grant is intended to serve as a short-term resource to assist with expenses not covered by insurance. These may include, but are not limited to: transportation (including petrol), parking, meals, over-the-counter medications, prescription assistance, baby formula, and household utilities. All funds must be used and allocated within one year of receipt.
$31,264 spentof which $25,000 as grants5% of program spendingThe Begin Again Foundation fund assists families identified by the Social Work Department at the Childrens Hospital of the Kings Daughters as experiencing demonstrable hardship. Following an assessment to determine each familys specific needs, the grant serves as a short-term resource to help cover expenses not covered by insurance. These may include, but are not limited to: transportation (including petrol), parking, meals, over-the-counter medications, prescription assistance, baby formula, and household utilities. All funds must be used and allocated within one year of receipt.
$294 spentof which $235 as grants0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $617,003.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $2.9M (+75%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
8% of Begin Again Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $189k → $186k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Begin Again Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Begin Again Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Begin Again Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 48% · 2019 30% · 2020 82% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
54% of Begin Again Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Begin Again Foundation draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Begin Again Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Begin Again Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Begin Again Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Begin Again Foundation?
- Begin Again Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,618,458 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Begin Again Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,618,458 in grants to Begin Again Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Begin Again Foundation?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Begin Again Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing