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Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund at a glance

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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 FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$434kArts & Culture$276kHealth$210kEmployment$151kPhilanthropy$141kHuman Services$95kReligion$65kYouth Development$29kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EUGENE FAMILY YMCA$25,000
GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$20,000
EMERALD VALLEY ULTIMATE$20,000
OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$15,000
FRIENDS OF FRENCHIES EUGENE$10,000
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $30k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EUGENE FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
PA
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 36 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 33 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
17

Total granted

$1.2M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+18%

Still filing today

69%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OC
    OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    10× · 2017–2026 · $166k · revenue +151%
  • EP
    EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    10× · 2017–2026 · $140k · revenue +21%
  • OP
    Oil Painters of America
    4× · 2017–2020 · $93k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL PARISH OF EUGEN
    one grant, 2025 · $30k
  • SM
    ST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • FF
    FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Oak Hill School

The mission of oak hill school is to provide the best pre-kindergarten through 8th grade education, creating caring and responsible critical thinkers.

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2
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Washington and Lee University

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,…

Education
4
Owensboro Health Medical Group Inc

Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.

Health
5
The Laurence School

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…

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
7
Lehigh University

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…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Owensboro Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
10
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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11
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
12
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherEUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONEUGENE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $72,000 · OtherEUGENE EDUCATIONAL FUNDSALVATION ARMY - LEXINGTON: $52,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - LEXINGTONTHE GOW SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherTHE GOW SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · OtherST MARY'S EPISCOPAL PARISH OF EUGEN: $30,000 · OtherST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE: $25,000 · OtherTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $29,000 · Other+26 more: $244,000 · Other+26 moreTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $141,008 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COM…THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 · PhilanthropyTHE LEXINGTON …THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LENFEST IN…Oil Painters of America: $93,000 · Arts & CultureOil Painters o…PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVALS: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC INTERN…THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ART…SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationEUGENE EDUCAT…LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $62,000 · EducationLEXINGTON SCH…FRIENDS OF FRENCHIES: $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF FR…TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA …CHARLEMAGNE AT FOX HOLLOW PTO COMPANY: $10,000 · EducationCHARLEMAGNE A…OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $166,000 · EmploymentOREGON CENT…CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $32,000 · HealthSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,000 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,500 · HealthONE BRIDGE TO HOPE INC: $5,000 · HealthEMERALD VALLEY ULTIMATE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$699,000Philanthropy$209,508Arts & Culture$200,000Education$187,000Employment$166,000Health$100,500Recreation & Sports$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $166,000 over 10y, 3.1% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $141,008 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 10y, 2.4% of budgetOil Painters of America: $93,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPACIFIC INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVALS: $75,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE GOW SCHOOL: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $29,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLEMAGNE AT FOX HOLLOW PTO COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES OF LOVE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWALD PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetONE BRIDGE TO HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Isaac Van Meter IV Fa…Blue Grass Community …The Community Foundat…John B Van Meter Char…Rosenstein Family Cha…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Christian Word Minist…Elhapa Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Crutcher Family Found…The Oregon Community …Baird Foundation Inc
Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc AgyWI37× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Vanmeterbarnhart Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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