· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Oil Painters of America | $10,000 |
| Tom Browning Boys & Girls Club | $10,000 |
| Homes of Love | $10,000 |
| Carnegie Literacy Center | $10,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $10,000 |
| One Bridge to Hope | $5,000 |
| Smile Train | $5,000 |
| Gleanings Housing Inc | $5,000 |
| Shriners Hospital | $5,000 |
| Chrysalis House | $2,000 |
| Kentucky Educational Television | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 LOUISVILLE YOUTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
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- Who funds Childrens Medical Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John B Van Meter Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John B Van Meter Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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