The Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF) Board of Trustees and Staff are pleased to share our Annual Report to the Community. This is our opportunity to communicate some of the many significant contributions of local organizations in the last year toward enhancing health in Greater Williamsburg.

In 2025, we consistently heard about the increased demand for food assistance. At the end of the year,
WHF awarded eight  Meeting the Moment grants totaling $130,000 for expanding access to food. Those grants represented a small portion of WHF’s overall grantmaking, which totaled nearly $6.9 million. The following pages feature the Meeting the Moment grants as well as WHF partners who implemented other health-focused projects, programs, and initiatives. Spotlighting these efforts underscores our belief that Access to Food is Access to Health.

The numbers served and the impact shared by these partners remind us of what is possible when dedicated organizations rally around a shared vision of creating a healthy community. As we look ahead, we do so with the anticipation of implementing WHF’s refined focus for 2026-2030, which represents the community’s voice and is designed to address root causes, uncover gaps in service, deepen partnerships, strengthen strategic networks, and continue health-enhancing support. The aims of WHF’s strategic framework, organized around Access to Care, Economic Advancement, and Healthy Living, builds upon the Foundation’s three decades of supporting health-focused efforts.

As you read the following pages, we hope you enjoy learning about the vital work our partners accomplished in 2025. Together, we look forward to even greater impact in the years ahead.

*Estimated meals, rides, in-home supports, clinical encounters, prescriptions, physical activity opportunities, and many others.

WHF Financial Summary

WHF was established in 1996 when the Williamsburg Community Hospital and Sentara formed a partnership agreement and later merged. This agreement included a provision for a new, locally organized and managed Foundation to benefit community health. In the inaugural year, WHF started with an endowment of $55 million and anticipated providing $1 million annually to support health initiatives in the community. To fulfill the objective of providing financial support for community partner programs and health initiatives in perpetuity, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees established a goal to achieve investment returns sufficient to support ongoing operations and grant distributions and maintain pace with inflation. Under the careful oversight of the Board of Trustees, the Foundation’s endowment had grown to a value of over $170 million by the end of 2025, and WHF has awarded more than $119 million in grants to benefit health and well-being in Greater Williamsburg.