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Timken Family Charitable Trust

Canton, OH · EIN 34-6922439. Reported 134 grants totalling $341,650 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,475median grant
$341,650granted, 2020-2024
57organizations funded
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,552,644assets, 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. Timken Family Charitable Trust 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 $1,475. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $4,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $12,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
29 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
77 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 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
Roadrunner Food Bank of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$44,500552024
Arizona Quail AllianceNogales, AZ$32,000442024
Arts in StarkCanton, OH$20,000442024
Lawrence SchoolBroadview Heights, OH$20,000752024
Aves Argentinas Association OrnitologicaBuenos Aires$15,000222024
Canton Country Day SchoolCanton, OH$15,000332022
Canton Palace TheatreCanton, OH$15,000212023
Lehigh UniversityBethlehem, PA$14,000442024
Sisters of Charity Foundation of CantonCanton, OH$10,000222022
Timken Museum of ArtSan Diego, CA$10,000112024
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC$8,500332022
Arizon Quail AllianceNogales, AZ$7,500112020
Canton Museum of ArtCanton, OH$7,500332022
Baja Love OutreachHuntington Beach, CA$6,000222021
Oklahoma Humane SocietyOklahoma City, OK$6,000652024
Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA$6,000222021
Uss Cleveland Legacy FoundationCleveland, OH$5,500222024
Habitat for Humanity East Central OhioCanton, OH$5,000112023
Humane Society of StillwaterStillwater, OK$5,000552024
Neomed FoundationRootstown, OH$5,000112024
Phillips Academy AndoverAndover, MA$5,000552024
Sisters of Charity FoundationCanton, OH$5,000112020
Stark County Humane SocietyCanton, OH$5,000222022
Vashon-Maury Island Land TrustVashon, WA$4,250552024
Afghan Scout Relief FundRanchos De Taos, NM$4,000112023
St John's Episcopal ChurchJackson, WY$3,500112023
Colgate UniversityHamilton, NY$3,000112020
Duck Unlimited IncMemphis, TN$3,000332024
Santa Fe Farmers Market InstituteSanta Fe, NM$3,000112022
Santa Fe Waldorf SchoolSanta Fe, NM$3,000222021
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000112024
Usss Cleveland Legacy FoundationCleveland, OH$3,000112022
Save the Manatee Club IncLongwood, FL$2,500332024
Save the Whales IncSalinas, CA$2,500332024
Stark County Humane SociteyCanton, OH$2,500112020
Tulane UniversityDallas, TX$2,500112022
American Friends of Teh Almeida TheatreNew York, NY$2,100112020
American Friends of the Almeida TheatreHarrison, NY$2,100222023
El Monte Police Officer AssociationEl Monte, CA$2,000112023
Oklahoma Lab Rescue IncorporatedBroken Arrow, OK$2,000222021
Santa Fe Watershed AssociationSanta Fe, NM$2,000112021
Vashon Wilderness ProgramVashon, WA$2,000222024
American Friends of Sadler's WellsBrooklyn, NY$1,550112020
Hazelden Betty Ford CenterRanch Mirage, CA$1,500112022
Mercy IncorporatedKeizer, OR$1,500112021
North Canton Medical FoundationNorth Canton, OH$1,500332023
Amer Friends of the Donmar Theatre IncNew York, NY$1,450112021
Vashon Green SchoolVashon, WA$1,250552024
Vashon Nature CenterVashon, WA$1,250552024
Vashon Youth & Family ServicesVashon, WA$1,250552024
Grils Inc of Santa FeSanta Fe, NM$1,000112020
International Rescue CommitteeAlbert Lea, MN$1,000112021
The Nature ConservancyKeene Valley, NY$1,000112023
Vashon Island Growers AssocVashon, WA$1,000442024
Zion Community Development CorpCanton, OH$1,000112021
Canton Police DepartmentCanton, OH$500112023
Camp SoulgrowBuras, LA$450212022

30 of 57 (53%) 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 65%, 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 90 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
20 grants
Animal Welfare
20 grants
Arts & Culture
14 grants
Environment
14 grants
Food & Nutrition
6 grants
Mental Health
5 grants
Community Improvement
5 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202025$56,650$1,550
202127$71,950$2,000
202230$67,450$1,000
202330$80,600$1,000
202422$65,000$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. 37% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$122K
New Mexico
$58K
Arizona
$40K
California
$22K
Pennsylvania
$14K
Oklahoma
$13K
New York
$11K
Washington
$11K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,475. 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 Ohio.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Timken Family Charitable Trust'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 Ave N 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 34-6922439 · 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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