Bernardine Franciscan Sisters
Newport News, VA · EIN 54-1822675. Reported 100 grants totalling $3,591,093 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 38% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,062. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $26,160; the smallest was $5,369 and the largest $434,737. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernardine Sister of the Third Order of St Francis | Reading, PA | $1,357,152 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of the Virginia Peninsula | Yorktown, VA | $255,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Peninsula Agency on Aging Inc | Newport News, VA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mary Immaculate Hospital | Newport News, VA | $135,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Networkpeninsula | Newport News, VA | $127,284 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Child & Family Services Inc | Newport News, VA | $115,409 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thrive Peninsula | Newport News, VA | $70,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Edmarc Inc | Portsmouth, VA | $66,173 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Transitions Family Violence Services | Hampton, VA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Soundscapes Inc | Newport News, VA | $64,344 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rural Housing Partnership | Gloucester, VA | $60,599 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Commonwealth Catholic Charities | Richmond, VA | $60,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Natasha House Inc | Yorktown, VA | $60,070 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Versability Resources Inc | Hampton, VA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Virginia Beach Justice Initiative | Hampton, VA | $55,895 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia Inc | Norfolk, VA | $52,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hampton Ecumenical Lodging and Provisions Inc | Hampton, VA | $51,340 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Menchville House Ministries | Newport News, VA | $49,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Downtown Hampton Child Care Council Inc | Hampton, VA | $47,606 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Literacy for Life | Williamsburg, VA | $45,995 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Degood Foundation | Newport News, VA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Youth Volunteer Corps of Hampton Roads Inc | Newport News, VA | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation | Blue Ash, OH | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Serve the City Peninsula | Newport News, VA | $33,569 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Faith Recovery Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $30,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Sexual Assault Survivors | Newport News, VA | $25,478 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Friends of Foster Care | Norfolk, VA | $25,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Futures Foundation | Richmond, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Housing Development Corporation of Hampton Roads | Newport News, VA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Link of Hampton Roads Incorporated | Newport News, VA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads | Portsmouth, VA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Virginia Living Museum Inc | Newport News, VA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast | Chesapeake, VA | $16,285 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic | Gloucester, VA | $15,948 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Access Virginia | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alternatives Incorporated | Hampton, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| C Waldo Scott Center for H O P E Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Care Net Resource Pregnancy Centers Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Knights Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ezer Initiative | Portsmouth, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Firstspark Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Hampton Roads Diaper Bank | Chesapeake, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Newport News Green Foundation Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Postpartum Support Virginia Inc | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social Butterflies Foundation | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Samaritan Group | White Marsh, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Virginia Peninsula Foodbank | Hampton, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Virginia Peninsulas | Newport News, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dream Catchers | Toano, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Echo Orphancare Partners | Hampton, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Marys Home for Disabled Children Inc | Norfolk, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center Inc | Newport News, VA | $6,110 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hampton Baptist Church | Hampton, VA | $5,436 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
24 of 55 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Bernardine Sister of the Third Order of St Francis
TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO MULTIPLE PROGRAMS - Peninsula Agency on Aging
TO ADVANCE ITS MISSION AND FURTHER ITS SUSTAINABILITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $884,333 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $990,872 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $877,659 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $838,229 | $21,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
61% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,062 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bernardine Franciscan Sisters's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2 Bernardine Drive, Newport News, VA, 23602.
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