· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 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 COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES TEACHING & SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PEAK TO PEAK CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vander Meer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vander Meer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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