· Private foundation
The Ward J and Joy A Timken Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arts in Stark | $13,200 |
| United Way of Greater Stark County | $12,000 |
| Moorings Park Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc | $10,000 |
| EAA Aviation Foundation Inc | $7,500 |
| Westminster School | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army of Canton | $5,000 |
| Heritage Christian School | $2,500 |
| Stark Community Foundation Inc | $2,100 |
| Stark County Humane Society | $2,000 |
| Stark Community Foundation Inc | $2,000 |
| Cape Cod Foundation | $750 |
| Salvation Army of Canton | $500 |
| Aultman Foundation | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +60%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +229%- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIOone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +1%
- PFPro Football Hall of Fameone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +53%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stark Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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. 57 of the 97 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 ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Stark County ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VIVA PIMA ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds GREATER STARK COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATREZONEINC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
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: Stark Community Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Premier Bank Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · WR Timken Jr Foundation · Schauer Family Fund Inc
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 Ward J and Joy A Timken 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.
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
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.
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