The Damuth Family Foundation is a regionally focused funder in the Chesapeake/Hampton Roads area that concentrates support on local social-service institutions, a local independent school, and regional health and volunteer infrastructure. They favor repeat, multi-year support for a handful of core organizations—particularly a faith-based mission—while also making some mid-sized discretionary or individual gifts. Their portfolio emphasizes direct service and community resilience rather than national causes.
Concentrated, local giving with repeat multi-grant support to a small group of core grantees; grants are mid-sized (roughly $15k–$150k) and focused on service delivery and community institutions rather than broad grantmaking portfolios.
Damuth Family Foundation’s most distinctive pattern is its repeated support for The Union Mission Ministries, which received $50,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That three-year continuity points to a funder that backs a small set of local institutions over time rather than spreading gifts widely. The foundation’s recent giving also includes support for a regional volunteer network, an independent school, and a local health foundation, showing a mix of direct service, education, and community infrastructure. Its grant list reflects a local orientation in Virginia, with awards concentrated in Hampton Roads communities such as Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk. The foundation also makes a few discretionary gifts outside that core pattern, including support to Missouri State University Foundation and to an individual in Ashland, Virginia. Across the recent record, the Damuth Family Foundation appears to favor practical, community-facing organizations with clear local reach and recurring roles in the region.
The foundation’s clearest cause area is homeless services and faith-based direct aid. In that lane, it gave $50,000 to The Union Mission Ministries in Norfolk in 2025, matching the same amount given in 2024 and 2023. It also gave $50,000 to Union Mission in Virginia Beach in 2025. A second area is volunteer infrastructure: Volunteer Hampton Roads received $30,000 in 2025 for charitable purposes. Education appears through Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc in Virginia Beach, which received $20,000 in 2025, alongside earlier awards in 2023 and 2024. Community health is another recurring theme, with Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation receiving $15,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The pattern suggests steady backing for organizations that serve basic needs and local civic capacity.
Typical gifts sit in a mid-sized range: the p25 is $15,000, the median is $20,000, and the p75 is $40,000. The recent record shows repeat support to several organizations across multiple years, especially a few core Virginia nonprofits. That indicates an ongoing relationship model rather than isolated one-time awards. The foundation’s grants are made as charitable-purpose gifts, and the available data does not show individual grant applications or a formal unsolicited process. It does, however, show some flexibility in check size, from $15,000 awards to $50,000 awards, with one higher-distribution cluster around mission support and school funding.
$160K
$6.8M
$5.3M
$199K
Most grants fall between $15K and $40K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$40K
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Notable grantees: The Union Mission Ministries, Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc, Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation, Volunteer Hampton Roads, Matt Senters
The giving is overwhelmingly local: 100% of recent grants went to recipients in Virginia. Norfolk and Virginia Beach appear repeatedly, along with Chesapeake and Suffolk. Norfolk recipients include The Union Mission Ministries and Volunteer Hampton Roads, while Virginia Beach recipients include Union Mission and Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc. Chesapeake is represented by Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation, and Suffolk appears through The Apricity Hope Project. One out-of-state grant went to Missouri State University Foundation in Springfield, Missouri, but the overall pattern remains concentrated in Hampton Roads and nearby Virginia communities.
The recent record points to homeless and direct-aid services, volunteer infrastructure, independent K–12 education, and community health. Named recipients include The Union Mission Ministries, Volunteer Hampton Roads, Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc, and Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation.
The typical grant size is $15,000 at the 25th percentile, $20,000 at the median, and $40,000 at the 75th percentile. Recent awards also include several $50,000 grants and a $30,000 grant.
Yes. The recent grants show repeated support for several organizations across multiple years, including The Union Mission Ministries, Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc, and Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation.
Its giving is local and centered in Virginia. Recent recipients are in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, and Ashland, with 100% of grants going to recipients in Virginia.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | SPRINGFIELD, MO | $50,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| UNION MISSION | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | $50,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| THE APRICITY HOPE PROJECT | SUFFOLK, VA | $25,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | $20,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | CHESAPEAKE, VA | $15,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| THE UNION MISSION MINISTRIES | NORFOLK, VA | $50,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| VOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS | NORFOLK, VA | $30,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | $20,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | CHESAPEAKE, VA | $15,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| THE UNION MISSION MINISTRIES | NORFOLK, VA | $50,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | $20,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | CHESAPEAKE, VA | $15,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| THE UNION MISSION MINISTRIES | NORFOLK, VA | $50,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | $20,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| MATT SENTERS | ASHLAND, VA | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
| CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | CHESAPEAKE, VA | $15,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE PURPOSES |
THE APRICITY HOPE PROJECT
$25,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
$15,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
THE UNION MISSION MINISTRIES
CHARITABLE PURPOSES
VOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS
$30,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
$15,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
$15,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
MATT SENTERS
$15,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES
CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
$15,000CHARITABLE PURPOSES