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Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,563
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,008
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationOther
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 arriving14$57k14%
FY202416$74k25%
FY202315$69k100%
FY201823$147kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$520kHealth$11kEmployment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ferris State University$30,7863n/a
Central Michigan University$30,2343n/a
Alma College$16,55330%
Spring Arbor University$16,30630%
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary$16,3053n/a
Saginaw Valley State University$15,7223n/a
University of Michigan$10,64132%
Concordia University Irvine$9,06520%
University of Pittsburgh$9,06520%
Grand Canyon University$9,06520%
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All grantees of Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ferris State University$30,7863n/a
Central Michigan University$30,2343n/a
Alma College$16,55330%
Spring Arbor University$16,30630%
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary$16,3053n/a
Saginaw Valley State University$15,7223n/a
University of Michigan$10,64132%
Concordia University Irvine$9,06520%
University of Pittsburgh$9,06520%
Grand Canyon University$9,06520%
Grand Valley State University$7,7093n/a
Kirtland Community College$5,2962n/a
Michigan State University$2,9343n/a
Alpena Community College$2,0361n/a
Industrial Arts Institute Inc$2,00010%
Mid Michigan College$1,0001n/a

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust

How much does Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust give?
Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust reported 14 grants totaling $57,003 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Health (2%), Employment (0%).
Who are Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ferris State University ($31k), Central Michigan University ($30k), Alma College ($17k).
Does Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Herman Klimmek Family Char Trust based?
Herman Klimmek Family Char 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 44 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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