· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +52% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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