Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

About Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

A defining thread in Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation’s recent giving is a repeated seven-figure commitment to Virginia Union University: $1,000,000 in 2023, again in 2024, and again in 2025 for the Virginia Union University Dominion Energy HBCU Promise. That pattern shows how the foundation can sustain a multi-year education commitment while also writing smaller local grants across its service areas. The foundation’s charitable support is organized around community vitality, education, basic human needs, and environmental stewardship, with grants that reach schools, workforce programs, cultural institutions, emergency response efforts, and conservation projects. Recent grants also show support for the United Negro College Fund’s Dominion Energy Social Justice Fellowship Program and for regional disaster response through Central Carolina Community Foundation’s One SC Fund: Hurricane Helene. Alongside those larger commitments, the foundation funds civic and cultural work in Richmond and broader regional partnerships tied to the communities served by Dominion Energy. Its portfolio includes both programmatic giving and employee-giving related distributions, showing a mix of institutional grantmaking and affiliated giving activity.

What Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Funds

In higher education, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation backed the United Negro College Fund Inc. with $500,000 for the Dominion Energy Social Justice Fellowship Program, and it also supported Virginia Tech Foundation Inc. with $250,000 for the Virginia 4-H Educational Centers Campaign. Those grants sit alongside a broader education portfolio that includes K–12 STEM and workforce-readiness work through its education programs. The foundation also funds disaster relief and resilience: Central Carolina Community Foundation received $300,000 for One SC Fund: Hurricane Helene, connecting the foundation’s basic human needs work with regional emergency response. Arts and civic life are another visible lane, with Richmond Performing Arts Alliance receiving grants for the CenterStage facility on Grace Street, and Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers supported through Dominion Energy Riverrock. Environmental stewardship appears in grants such as National Arbor Day Foundation’s 2022 Project Plant It, which points to conservation and environmental education as an ongoing theme.

How Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Gives