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Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$888k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS$12,348
TUSC CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCH$10,000
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH$8,000
NEWCOMERSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,588
TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION$5,000
ARTSNCT INC$4,266
RAGERSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,500
BENEATH THE SHADE INC$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,300
PEOPLES COMMUNITY CHURCH$2,000
TUSCARAWAS COUNTY LITERACY COALITION$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 12%HARCATUS TRI-COUNTY CAO: $5k → 12%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.
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 15 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
40

Total granted

$147k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-1%

Still filing today

33%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentReligionOther
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

  • O
    OhioGuidestone
    3× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    Twin City Parks and Waterways Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +13%
  • ZC
    ZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • SM
    STRASBURG-FRANKLING MARCHING BAND
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • PT
    Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -86% · 28% of their budget
  • TC
    TUSCARAWAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
New Washington Ohio Historical Society

Maintain historical society

Arts & Culture
2
Perrysburg Area Historic Museum Inc

Historical museum exhibiting historical events occurring in Perrysburg, Ohio, and the immediately surrounding area. Museum offers speaking events and tours.

Arts & Culture
3
Preservation Society of Union City

Maintain union city in/oh historic structures

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4
Dingmans Ferry Delaware Township Historical Society

Historical Society

Arts & Culture
5
Toledo Harbor Light Society

To restore preserve educate promote the Toledo Lighthouse

Arts & Culture
6
Tamaqua Historical Society

To preserve the history of tamaqua, pa

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7
Pickaway County Historical Society

Discover and Collect Pickaway County History.

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8
Niles Historical Society

To collect and preserve artifacts and memorabilia related to the history of the city of niles, ohio. to educate and display all forms of historical materials.

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9
Delaware County Historical Society Inc

Historical society

Arts & Culture
10
Delaware County Historical Society

Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.

Arts & Culture
11
Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation Inc

Preservation and restoration of railroad items to educate the public on railroad history

Arts & Culture
12
Beltrami County Historical Society

Maintain archives of historical material

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Outdoor Historical Drama Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Twin City Parks and Waterways Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 64 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST: $21,171 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTIndividual grant recipient: $17,617 · OtherSTRASBURG-FRANKLING MARCHING BAND: $17,580 · OtherTRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherARTSNCT INC: $12,266 · Other+51 more: $251,684 · Other+51 moreDennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc: $9,988 · Arts & CultureOHIO OUTDOOR HISTORICAL DRAMA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDAVID WARTHER CARVINGS: $2,710 · Arts & CultureBeneath The Shade: $17,500 · ReligionOhioGuidestone: $13,792 · HealthFriends of the Homeless: $12,348 · Housing & ShelterPerry Township Search and Rescue Inc: $11,964 · Public Safety & DisasterTwin City Parks and Waterways Inc: $10,500 · Environment
Other$335,318Arts & Culture$17,698Religion$17,500Health$13,792Housing & Shelter$12,348Public Safety & Disaster$11,964Environment$10,500

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

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
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.

  • Who funds Beneath The Shade ↗
  • Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Homeless ↗
  • Who funds Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Twin City Parks and Waterways Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds TUSCARAWAS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEWCOMERSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO OUTDOOR HISTORICAL DRAMA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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 FoundationDoris & Floyd Kimble …Haman Family Foundati…Harold & Marjorie Ros…John & Orlena Marsh F…Dewey H & Irene G Moo…Dover Exchange Club C…Tuscarawas County Com…Helen V Brach Foundat…Timken Foundation of …Stark Community Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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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