· Private foundation
Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC | $24,000 |
| LEXINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION | $6,000 |
| THE GOW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOU | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERDS HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS | $4,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL KY | $4,000 |
| SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL | $2,500 |
| BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $107k · revenue +5%
- TLTHE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +261%
- CHCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON KYone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…
To operate and maintain a hospital affiliated with the university of louisville school of medicine and to provide care for the people who are in need of those, or related, medical services.
To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.
Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Foster a liberal arts education that nourishes, stimulates and prepares future leaders intellectually, spiritually and physically to achieve success in life
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHORN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY ↗
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: Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US
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 Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy 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.