· Private foundation
The Polly and John M Timken Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Britain Industrial Museum | $5,000 |
| Kenya Drylands Education Fund | $5,000 |
| Zack's Place | $4,000 |
| Adams Memorial Society Inc | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Bridgewater Historical Society | $2,000 |
| Kelly Brush Foundation | $2,000 |
| Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +136%
- KDKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +43%
- WIWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- BCBRIDGEWATER CONGRETATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- DHDismas House of Vermontone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Provides out patient primary health and dental care in medical and dental care underserved areas and populations through a community owned clinic for the residents of Grafton Orange Dorchester Canaan Enfield and the greater Mascoma Valley…
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Support and further the charitable activities of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital & Health Foundation by being operated in connection with said organizations.
To provide a community based, non-residential adult day health and wellness program meeting the need of the multi-town region of Woodstock, Quechee, Hartland, Hartford, White River Juncion, Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret, Reading,…
The mission of Tioga Medical Center is to address the health care needs of the community through providing quality health care and promoting education and wellness.
To provide basic and advanced life support, ambulatory care, and transportation to area hospitals for the residents of the town of new windsor and the surrounding areas.
To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS MEMORIAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc ↗
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: Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Polly and John M Timken Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Polly and John M Timken Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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