Colorado · Private foundation
Vander Meer 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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $473k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Vander Meer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $173k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $213k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $139k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $155k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $58k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $29k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $11k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Reformed Church | $315,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Legacy Academy | $75,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Joshua Inc | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Imagine Foundation | $53,700 | 7 | 1% |
| Witnessing Ministries of Christ | $52,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Equipnet | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lost Lake-Randolph Historical Society Inc | $13,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Now Bible Church | $11,000 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vander Meer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Daniels Fund · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · United Way of Larimer County · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
About Vander Meer Family Foundation
- How much does Vander Meer Family Foundation give?
- Vander Meer Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vander Meer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Religion (27%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Vander Meer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Reformed Church ($315k), American Legacy Academy ($75k), Joshua Inc ($58k).
- Does Vander Meer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vander Meer 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 Vander Meer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Daniels Fund, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is Vander Meer Family Foundation based?
- Vander Meer Family Foundation is based in CO.
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