· Private foundation
The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $151k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k17 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Phoenix Pact Fund | $51,300 |
| Advocate Aurora Healthcare Foundation | $32,200 |
| Old St Patrick's Church | $16,000 |
| LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION - Safe Families | $14,675 |
| Leukemia Research Fdn | $10,112 |
| First Christian Church - Huntington Beach | $4,725 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $4,500 |
| Bracken's Kitchen | $3,500 |
| First Christian Church - High Point | $2,600 |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $2,500 |
| Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach | $2,000 |
| Pelotonia | $2,000 |
| KHERUT | $1,000 |
| Roosters Foundation Of Orange County | $1,000 |
| North Lawndale College Prep High School | $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 (FY20–21, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +69% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- LRLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $55k · revenue +153%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +78%- BKBrackens Kitchen Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- ALAdvocate Lutheran General Hospitalone grant, 2019 · $23k
- COCommunity of Franciscan Friarsone grant, 2019 · $4k
- FCFirst Christian Churchone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic…
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
Astia is a community of experts committed to leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs by providing access to capital and network for the companies they lead.
We improve the lives of the people in our care affected by autism.
Cancer bridges supports those impacted by cancer through a variety of free programs and services
Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Have Dreams and the most unlike its peers is Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Phoenix Pact Fund ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE AURORA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ↗
- Who funds HAVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds I Grow Chicago NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation 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.