· Private foundation
Browning-Vanmeter Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAYRE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $32,500 |
| Episcopal High School | $10,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $10,000 |
| Washington & Lee University | $7,500 |
| LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREENHOUSE 17 | $2,500 |
| Kentucky Educational Television Foundati | $2,500 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $2,500 |
| TOM BROWNING BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $99k · revenue +19%
- TPTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +31%
Washington and Lee University2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of South-Central Keone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NANational Alliance on Mental Healthone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CFCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
To unite, organize and empower members to advocate for themselves, to ensure a quality public education for every kentucky student and to be the preeminent voice for quality public education.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Louisville ballet makes moving art that respects tradition, encourages innovation, and fosters life-long learning. we inspire connection, conversation and a profound sense of community, by striving for bold collaborations, by nurturing the…
Foster a liberal arts education that nourishes, stimulates and prepares future leaders intellectually, spiritually and physically to achieve success in life
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE KENTUCKY BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE17 INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Browning-Vanmeter Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.