GrantmakersVirginia

Chartway Promise Foundation

Virginia Beach, VA · EIN 20-3244422. Reported 60 grants totalling $3,380,700 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$23,000median reported grant
$3,380,700granted, 2021-2024
75%of grantees funded again the next year
25%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Chartway Promise Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 25% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $23,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $245,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants

5 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $55,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah IncMurray, UT$845,000442024
Tobys Dream Foundation IncVirginia Bch, VA$725,000442024
Childrens Hospital of the Kings Daughters IncNorfolk, VA$393,000542024
Roc Solid Foundation IncChesapeake, VA$220,000332023
Make a Wish Foundation of Greater VirginiaRichmond, VA$205,000222024
Hooked on Hope VbVirginia Bch, VA$180,000442024
Families of Autistic Children of Tidewater IncVirginia Bch, VA$131,400332024
Make-a-Wish VirginiaRichmond, VA$100,000112023
Intermountain Healthcare Foundation IncSalt Lake Cty, UT$95,000222024
St Marys Home for Disabled Children IncNorfolk, VA$90,000222024
Saint Marys Home for Disabled Children FoundationNorfolk, VA$60,000222022
Ability FoundationWest Valley City, UT$48,000442024
Eye Care for KidsMidvale, UT$37,000332024
Team Hoyt VbVirginia Bch, VA$31,000222024
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana IncStafford, TX$30,000222024
Easterseals UcpVirginia Beach, VA$28,000222024
Childrens Assistive Technology ServiceNorfolk, VA$25,000222024
Eliza Hope FoundationVirginia Bch, VA$22,500222024
Childrens Miracle NetworkSalt Lake Cty, UT$15,800112023
Momadvocate FoundationChesapeake, VA$15,000222024
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area IncSalt Lake Cty, UT$15,000112024
Best Seat in the HouseSandy, UT$10,000112024
Hampton Univ Proton Therapy InstituteHamptn, VA$10,000112022
Hampton UniversityHampton, VA$10,000112023
Kaylees LegocySouth Mills, NC$10,000112021
Mercy Medical AngelsNorfolk, VA$10,000112023
Walk With Autism LtdSt George, UT$10,000112024
Complete the PuzzlePortsmouth, VA$9,000112024

18 of 28 (64%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 28 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.

Human Services
6 orgs
Health Care
6 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
5 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20218$660,000$50,000
202212$765,000$30,000
202320$1,002,700$14,400
202420$953,000$18,000

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

67% 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.

Virginia
$2.3M
Utah
$1.1M
Texas
$30K
North Carolina
$10K

Down to the city

Virginia Bch, VA
$1.1M
Murray, UT
$845K
Norfolk, VA
$578K
Richmond, VA
$305K
Chesapeake, VA
$235K
Salt Lake Cty, UT
$126K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation10 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $23,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
  4. 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 Chartway Promise Foundation'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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 5700 Cleveland Street 101, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462.

EIN 20-3244422 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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