Virginia · Nonprofit
HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC
HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,710 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($167,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $280k
What Healthy Chesapeake Inc does
Mission
Healthy chesapeake is committed to building a culture of wellness that supports, sustains and advocates for a healthier chesapeake. To achieve this, healthy chesapeake recognizes that health and well-being are interconnected with social, cultural, physical, economic, and other factors. Healthy chesapeake both develops its own population health programs and provides support for community partners working in these areas. Programs are designed in response to priorities identified by the most recent chesapeake regional healthcare's community health needs assessment, the city of chesapeake's new chesapeake thrives plan "caring about our community's health and well-being,- and other dominant population health issues. Principal activities include programs to support access to and utilization of healthy foods, healthy lifestyles, chronic disease management, and early childhood development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy chesapeake develops and delivers collaborative programs to support access and utilization of healthy food and combat food insecurity. This program has three main arms, including supporting community gardens, nutrition education, and preparation of healthy food. Fiscal year 2025 efforts included: 1)supporting 19 community gardens in a variety of settings to increase access to healthy foods for city residents most in need. This included doubling the capacity of the library garden in a food desert that has truly impacted an underserved neighborhood, with children eating fresh produce right out of the garden and creating the warren farms, virginia cooperative extension, and healthy chesapeake community education and production garden 2)coordinating a food is medicine pilot program to provide nutrition education and gardening opportunities for those in need. The program included a rooftop garden tour, chronic disease resources, stress-reduction techniques, and seed planting. Initial survey results showed 90% of families reported improved food literacy, cooking skills, and motivation to try new foods, 75% felt motivated to continue new exercise activities, and 100% found…
$268,345 spent32% of program spendingHealthy chesapeake develops and delivers collaborative initiatives that support physically and mentally active lifestyles for seniors and children who might otherwise lack access to these opportunities. Fiscal year 2025, efforts included: 1)convening with partners to support our seniors providing demos with healthy recipes, fresh produce, educational materials, and activity items. Facilitated food donations from other partners to 55+ communities and supported the virginia cooperative extension's agricultural and healthy eating classes. 2)participating in multicultural and family-centered events to support school age participants. The program distributed fresh fruits, recipes, supplies, and educational materials with over 2,000 served. 3)training local library staff to use healthy chesapeake's mobile kitchens, enabling major hillard and indian river libraries to offer cooking classes led by servsafe certified staff, amplifying the delivery of nutrition education
$310,273 spent37% of program spendingHealthy chesapeake promotes access to and engagement in programs supportive of physical, behavioral, and mental health. This includes a no-cost chronic disease management clinic for low-income individuals with uncontrolled diabetes / hypertension; support groups, on-site training; a variety of free health- and engagement-focused community events; and other efforts to promote healthy, active lifestyles, and promote social engagement. Fiscal year 2025, efforts included: 1)offering a free weekly high-touch chronic disease management clinic to address participants' medical, social, and transportation needs serving a total of 52 clients in this reporting year. Partnering with the foodbank of southeastern virginia and the eastern shore has provided over 32,000 pounds of food were distributed to clients. Hub clients are often seen over many years and participants have recorded an average 20% reduction in a1c levels. Participants interact with a nurse practitioner, registered nurse, and/or social worker. Utilizing the most conservative reimbursement figures from the centers for medicare and medicaid services fee schedule, the valuation of the free services exceeds 16,000. 2)partnering…
$259,959 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $838,577.
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 2022 to 2023, from $314k to $509k (+62%).
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: 2019 71% · 2020 87% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 45% · 2024 47% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Brian Martin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $52k → $10k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC’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
HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 59% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
70% of HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC: 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 HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC?
- HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,710 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($167,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $284,710 in grants to HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $167,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTHY CHESAPEAKE INC 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 9 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