· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of BLAIR E & ANNA L ZIMMERMAN FOUNDATION TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OOhioGuidestone3× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +40%
- TCTwin City Parks and Waterways Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +13%
- ZCZOAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SMSTRASBURG-FRANKLING MARCHING BANDone grant, 2020 · $18k
- PTPerry Township Search and Rescue Incone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -86% · 28% of their budget
- TCTUSCARAWAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maintain historical society
Historical museum exhibiting historical events occurring in Perrysburg, Ohio, and the immediately surrounding area. Museum offers speaking events and tours.
Maintain union city in/oh historic structures
Historical Society
To restore preserve educate promote the Toledo Lighthouse
To preserve the history of tamaqua, pa
Discover and Collect Pickaway County History.
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.
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.
Preservation and restoration of railroad items to educate the public on railroad history
Maintain archives of historical material
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Outdoor Historical Drama Association Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.