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Edith M Timken Family Foundation

Canton, OH · EIN 34-1524586. Reported 40 grants totalling $320,000 to 19 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$320,000granted, 2020-2024
19organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,205,555assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Edith M Timken Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Santa Fe Pro Musica IncSanta Fe, NM$91,500752024
Assistance Dogs of the WestSanta Fe, NM$90,100652024
Food DepotSanta Fe, NM$60,000552024
St John's College in Santa FePhiladelphia, PA$30,000222024
St John's CollegeBaltimore, MD$10,000112020
St John's College in Santa FeSanta Fe, NM$10,000112021
St Johns CollegeBaltimore, MD$10,000112022
Uwc-USAMontezuma, NM$7,000112022
Think New MexicoSanta Fe, NM$5,000552024
Stratford FestivalDetroit, MI$2,600222021
Stratford FestivalStratford$2,000112022
Stratford Shakespeare Festival of AmericaDetroit, MI$1,300112023
American Friends of the Almeida TheatreHarrison, NY$100112023
The Carter CenterAtlanta, GA$100112024
World Central Kitchen IncWashington, DC$100112024
First Nations Development InstituteLongmont, CO$50112023
Helping Hand for Relief & DevelopmentSouthfield, MI$50112023
Native American Rights FundBoulder, CO$50112024
Village EnterpriseSan Carlos, CA$50112024

6 of 19 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
17 grants
Arts & Culture
8 grants
Education
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20207$53,800$10,000
20216$62,300$10,000
20228$60,000$10,000
202310$62,600$1,150
20249$81,300$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 83% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Mexico. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Mexico
$264K
Pennsylvania
$30K
Maryland
$20K
Michigan
$4K
Colorado
$100
New York
$100
District of Columbia
$100
Georgia
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Mexico.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Edith M Timken Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: C/O 200 Market Avenue North Apt 210, Canton, OH, 44702. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 34-1524586 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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