How much does The Van Brimer Family Foundation give?

The Van Brimer Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $21,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Van Brimer Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Van Brimer Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($26k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($11k), Pratt Institute ($10k).

Does The Van Brimer Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Van Brimer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Van Brimer Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carmax Foundation, Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust, Westwind Foundation.

Where is The Van Brimer Family Foundation based?

The Van Brimer Family Foundation is based in VA.

The Van Brimer Family Foundation

The Van Brimer Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Van Brimer Family Foundation

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.

$21k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$56kEducation$22kArts & Culture$21kAnimals$20kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$9kCivil Rights$7kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$396k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$4,500
ARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE	$3,000
JACOBS RIDE FOR HEARING	$2,500
FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
DEPAUL INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM	$2,000
COCHLEAR IMPLANT AWARENESS FOUNDATION	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS	$1,000
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB	$750
GUIDE DONG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND	$750

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$147k · 31 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$147k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+28%

Still filing today

65%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

ML
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +149%
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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
3× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +17%
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PRATT INSTITUTE
4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +28%

Funded once

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American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
FS
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +28%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +15%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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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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

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. 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

38 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. 38 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

30/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$72,270Human Services$39,205Health$17,900Education$17,752Arts & Culture$13,794Animals$13,560Environment$11,000

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.

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.

Carmax FoundationVA14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carmax Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Westwind Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 The Van Brimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Van Brimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home