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Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust

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.

$72k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$888k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$72k75%
FY202410$46k40%
FY20237$30k71%
FY202211$49k55%
FY20218$43k88%
FY20209$48k56%
FY201910$52k90%
FY201812$47k83%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$75kReligion$56kEducation$55kRecreation & Sports$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kHealth$30kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beneath The Shade$17,50026%
OhioGuidestone$13,79230%
Friends of the Homeless$12,3481n/a
Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc$11,964128%
Twin City Parks and Waterways Inc$10,500215%
Dennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc$9,98811%
Claymont City Schools$8,5001n/a
Tuscarawas County Humane Society$8,33011%
Calvary Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Mineral City Area Historical Society$7,6902n/a
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beneath The Shade$17,50026%
OhioGuidestone$13,79230%
Friends of the Homeless$12,3481n/a
Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc$11,964128%
Twin City Parks and Waterways Inc$10,500215%
Dennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc$9,98811%
Claymont City Schools$8,5001n/a
Tuscarawas County Humane Society$8,33011%
Calvary Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Mineral City Area Historical Society$7,6902n/a
St Pauls Community Church$6,0001n/a
Newcomerstown Historical Society$5,5881n/a
Zoar Community Association$5,50021%
Ohio Outdoor Historical Drama Association Inc$5,00012%
Dover Historical Society$5,00012%
Tuscarawas County Literacy Coalition$5,0005n/a
Tuscora Park Foundation$5,0001n/a
Project Lead the Way Inc$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Harcatus Tri-County Cao Inc$4,53610%
Starlight Enterprises Inc$4,30010%
Ragersville Historical Society Inc$3,5001n/a
Twin City Christian Center Inc$3,00013%
David Warther Carvings$2,71021%
Pan Handle Athletic Club Inc$3551n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($245k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeneath The Shade: $17,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $13,792 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPerry Township Search and Rescue Inc: $11,964 over 1y, 28% of budgetTwin City Parks and Waterways Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetDennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc: $9,988 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTuscarawas County Humane Society: $8,330 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetZoar Community Association: $5,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOhio Outdoor Historical Drama Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDover Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetProject Lead the Way Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarcatus Tri-County Cao Inc: $4,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarlight Enterprises Inc: $4,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTwin City Christian Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDavid Warther Carvings: $2,710 over 2y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

Reeves FoundationOH34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reeves Foundation · Doris & Floyd Kimble Foundation · Haman Family Foundation Oag #98-1135 · Harold & Marjorie Rosenberry Foundation · John & Orlena Marsh Foundation · Dewey H & Irene G Moomaw Foundation Trust · Dover Exchange Club Childrens Foundation · Tuscarawas County Community Foundat · Helen V Brach Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Stark Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust

How much does Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust give?
Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust reported 12 grants totaling $71,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (13%), Education (13%).
Who are Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beneath The Shade ($18k), OhioGuidestone ($14k), Friends of the Homeless ($12k).
Does Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust 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 Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reeves Foundation, Doris & Floyd Kimble Foundation, Haman Family Foundation Oag #98-1135.
Where is Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust based?
Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust is based in OH.

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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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