Virginia · Nonprofit
HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY
HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,569,185 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA ENDOWMENT INC ($659,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Hampton Roads Academy does
Mission
Hampton Roads Academy is an inclusive community grounded in service and compassion, preparing students to excel intellectually, artistically, physically, and morally in higher education and in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The hallmark of hra is its cultivation of a community defined by compassion and excellence, one that nurtures the whole student. This community is built through a high-quality academic program, individualized attention, and an environment that is safe and supportive both physically and emotionally. Every student is encouraged to explore a wide range of experiencesacademic and extracurricular from the science lab to the playing fields to the stage. At hra, each student is valued and supported in developing their unique strengths. During the 2024-2025 school year, hra provided a high-quality education to 605 students, of whom 165 received financial assistance.
$10,794,305 spentof which $1,079,754 as grants$12,827,908 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,794,305.
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 2018 to 2019, from $19M to $23M (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Chris Beal
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $101k → $252k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY raised.
From the IRS filings of HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY’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
HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 54% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 50% — 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
50% of HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
67% of HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $522k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.6M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY?
- HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,569,185 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA ENDOWMENT INC ($659,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,569,185 in grants to HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY?
- UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $659,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAMPTON ROADS ACADEMY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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