Oregon · Private foundation
Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $115k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2026
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $762k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 33% of the organizations Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 7 | $115k | 57% |
| FY2025 | 6 | $110k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $57k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $261k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $248k | 11% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Center for Public Policy | $166,000 | 10 | 3% |
| Eugene Public Library Foundation | $140,000 | 10 | 2% |
| Oil Painters of America | $93,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Pacific International Choral Festivals | $75,000 | 4 | 37% |
| Eugene Education Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Lexington School Inc | $62,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc | $48,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Gow School | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chrysalis House Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund
- How much does Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund give?
- Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund reported 7 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (14%).
- Who are Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Oregon Center for Public Policy ($166k), Eugene Public Library Foundation ($140k), Oil Painters of America ($93k).
- Does Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund 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 Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund based?
- Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund is based in OR.
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