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John E Timm Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,265
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations John E Timm Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 & CultureEducationOther
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 arriving7$88k14%
FY20247$81k14%
FY20237$84k29%
FY20226$87k17%
FY20215$80k20%
FY20205$67k0%
FY20197$83k100%
FY20186$72k33%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$241kHuman Services$186kHousing & Shelter$53kArts & Culture$49kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$30kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$19kOther$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
Community Retirement Inc$155,08161%
Arthur Area Association of Commerce$18,638511%
Illinois Amish Information Exhibits$10,00013%
Alah Knights Jfl$9,8001n/a
Illinois Library Association$1,30510%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($528k), not named here.

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About John E Timm Charitable Trust

How much does John E Timm Charitable Trust give?
John E Timm Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $88,365 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John E Timm Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (26%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are John E Timm Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Retirement Inc ($155k), Arthur Area Association of Commerce ($19k), Illinois Amish Information Exhibits ($10k).
Does John E Timm Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John E Timm Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is John E Timm Charitable Trust based?
John E Timm Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 23 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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