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Browning-Vanmeter Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$155kReligion$78kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$10kCrime & Legal$5kYouth Development$5kSocial Science$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAYRE SCHOOL$50,000
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$32,500
Episcopal High School$10,000
University of Kentucky$10,000
Washington & Lee University$7,500
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc$5,000
LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$2,500
Kentucky Educational Television Foundati$2,500
GREENHOUSE 17$2,500
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS$2,500
TOM BROWNING BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY: $3k → 17%THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $1k → 14%Episcopal High School: $16k → 9%Washington & Lee University: $8k → 12%The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc: $5k → 14%Commonwealth Fund for KET: $3k → 15%SACRED HEART SCHOOLS: $3k → 15%CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 15%TOM BROWNING BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $3k → 20%Episcopal High School: $10k → 9%Washington & Lee University: $5k → 12%Kentucky Educational Television Foundati: $3k → 15%CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 15%TOM BROWNING BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $2k → 20%Episcopal High School: $5k → 9%God's Pantry Food Bank Inc: $3k → 15%LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 15%BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%SAYRE SCHOOL: $50k → 15%CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $33k → 15%Sayre School: $29k → 15%Sayre School: $20k → 15%CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $15k → 15%CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $15k → 15%CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $15k → 15%National Alliance on Mental Health: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 6 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$234k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+55%

Still filing today

83%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SS
    SAYRE SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $99k · revenue +19%
  • TP
    THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +31%
  • Washington and Lee University
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of South-Central Ke
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CF
    COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +55%
  • NA
    National Alliance on Mental Health
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kentucky Bankers Association

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…

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2
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
3
Kentucky Bar Association

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…

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4
Georgetown College

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…

Education
5
Kentucky Education Association

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.

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6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Kentucky Dance Council Inc Dba Louisville Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Kentucky Wesleyan College

Foster a liberal arts education that nourishes, stimulates and prepares future leaders intellectually, spiritually and physically to achieve success in life

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Furman University

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.

Education
12
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAYRE SCHOOL: $98,906 · EducationSAYRE SCHOOLTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $30,750 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIAWashington and Lee University: $12,500 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL: $77,500 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRALUniversity of Kentucky: $10,000 · OtherUniversity of KentuckyTHE KENTUCKY BAR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of South-Central Ke: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $11,000 · Other+5 moreCLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $10,187 · Housing & ShelterWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentGREENHOUSE17 INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Education$142,156Other$108,500Housing & Shelter$10,187Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$5,000Youth Development$4,500Human Services$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAYRE SCHOOL: $98,906 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $30,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $10,187 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY BAR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENHOUSE17 INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …John N Browning Famil…Baird Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Browning-Vanmeter Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Browning-Vanmeter Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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