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Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation at a glance

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Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$636kEducation$289kYouth Development$176kArts & Culture$22kAnimals$20kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$11kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $162k
$28,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM$40,000
UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM$40,000
KIDS ON THE BLOCK$30,000
SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER$28,000
UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION$12,000
FRIENDS OF WARREN CO PARKS & RECREATION$12,000
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY$8,000
FOREST HOME CEMETERY$5,000
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $46k → 10%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $30k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $41k → 10%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $30k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $41k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $28k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $30k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $41k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $25k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $23k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $40k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $25k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $22k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $40k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $25k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $20k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $23k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $20k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $22k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $12k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $20k → 17%KIDS ON THE BLOCK: $10k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $10k → 17%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $38k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF WARREN CO PARKS & RECREATION: $12k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY: $11k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY: $8k → 18%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ART GLASS PROGRAM: $12k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $10k → 10%UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ART GLASS PROGRAM: $10k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+56%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationAnimalsMembership BenefitOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2019–2026 · $124k · revenue +40%
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +2%
  • BG
    BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE
    4× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOUNDRY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +56%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
4
Southwest Baptist University

Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society; a higher-education institution offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Hospice of Southern West Virginia Inc

To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…

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7
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education
8
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
9
The Academy of the New Church

The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…

Education
10
Holland Community Hospital

To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.

Health
11
Bowling Green Warren County Community Hospital Corporation

Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Hastings College

Hastings college is a private, co-education, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1882.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Southern Kentucky Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foxcroft School. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAM: $715,618 · OtherUW STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION - ECOLOGICAL PROGRAMKIDS ON THE BLOCK: $200,725 · OtherKIDS ON THE BLOCKSCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER: $177,800 · OtherSCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER+6 more: $75,700 · Other+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $124,425 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $21,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR …Foxcroft School: $6,000 · EducationBOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE: $20,000 · AnimalsFOREST HOME CEMETERY INC: $10,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$1,169,843Education$151,425Animals$20,000Membership Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $124,425 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOTEL INC: $11,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOREST HOME CEMETERY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoxcroft School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOREST HOME CEMETERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INC ↗

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.

United Way of Souther…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Baird Foundation IncDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Southern Kentucky IncKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc · Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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