· Private foundation
John B Van Meter Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gow School | $30,000 |
| ACLU of Kentucky Foundation | $30,000 |
| University of Louisville Foundation | $20,000 |
| Salvation Army | $15,000 |
| Homes of Love | $10,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $10,000 |
| Tom Browning Boys & Girls Club | $10,000 |
| Oil Painters of America | $10,000 |
| Carnegie Literacy Center | $10,000 |
| Smile Train | $5,000 |
| Shriners Hospital | $5,000 |
| Gleanings Housing Inc | $5,000 |
| One Bridge to Hope | $5,000 |
| Chrysalis House | $2,000 |
| Kentucky Educational Television | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TBTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +29%
- OPOil Painters of America2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +23%
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Kentucky LQBTQ Resourcesone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GHGLEANINGS HOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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 the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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 break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Oil Painters of America ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE BRIDGE TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANINGS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Go Fund Bean ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE YOUTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Medical Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
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 · Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment 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 John B Van Meter Charitable 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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