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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST REFORMED CHURCH | $105,000 |
| WITNESSING MINISTRIES OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| IMAGINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| EQUIPNET | $8,000 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS | $2,000 |
| LOVELANDBERTHOUD MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| LOST LAKE - RANDOLPH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| PARKINSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TUSKEGEE AIRMEN INC | $2,000 |
| HOPE NOW BIBLE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HOPE NOW FOR YOUTH INC | $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 (FY19–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JIJOSHUA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +99%
- IFIMAGINE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +83%
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- ALAmerican Legacy Academygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue ×41 · 51% of their budget
- VOVILLAGE OF RANDOLPH WISCONSINone grant, 2024 · $50k
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -16%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
American for Tax Reform (ATR) is a national grassroots organization focused on increasing public awareness about the size and regulations of government and rallying support for lower taxes, smaller government and congressional…
A3 changes the few who change the many. we equip and unify visionary christ-centered leaders to influence spirit-led change. we are a vibrant community accelerating christ-centered movements around the world. a3 nurtures intentional…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Legacy Academy ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Witnessing Ministries of Christ ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE NOW FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds TUSKEGEE AIRMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LIVINGSTONIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES TEACHING & SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PEAK TO PEAK CHARTER SCHOOLS 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: 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
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 Vander Meer Family Foundation 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.