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Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL PARISH OF EUGEN | $30,000 |
| OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $20,000 |
| EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FRENCHIES EUGENE | $10,000 |
| CHARLEMANGE AT FOX HOLLOW PTO | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 32 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- OCOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +151%
- EPEUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%
- OPOil Painters of America4× · 2017–2020 · $93k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $30k
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue +18%
- PPICFESTone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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,…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
To raise, steward, and distribute philanthropic funds in support of owensboro health's mission to heal the sick and improve health in western kentucky and southern indiana.
The mission of oak hill school is to provide the best pre-kindergarten through 8th grade education, creating caring and responsible critical thinkers.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oil Painters of America ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVALS ↗
- Who funds EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRENCHIES ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds CHARLEMAGNE AT FOX HOLLOW PTO COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · John B Van Meter Charitable Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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