· Private foundation
Timken Foundation of Canton
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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k60 grants · $6.0M
- $250k+10 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANTON PALACE THEATER ASSOCIATION | $2,500,000 |
| PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME | $2,500,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $2,400,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $1,320,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO | $1,250,000 |
| REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $700,000 |
| STARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY | $602,970 |
| PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME | $500,000 |
| HOPE | $275,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| SNEHA BHARATHI EDUCATION SOCIETY | $235,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS CHARITABLE TRUST | $225,000 |
| STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC | $208,861 |
| FRIENDS OF STARK PARKS | $200,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL STARK COUNTY | $200,000 |
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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($114M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($21M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $9.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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
Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($21M)
13 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Timken Foundation of Canton’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 102 since wound down; 73 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- TPTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2023 · $6.4M · revenue +38% · 81% of their budget
- CPCANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +14%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $3.2M · revenue +0%
Funded once
- NONORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1.6M · revenue +39% · 31% of their budget
- HCHARRIS COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT NO 24one grant, 2018 · $1.3M
- MUMALONE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $1.2M · revenue -12%
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 United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Children's services
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Williams & Dollard Community Development Corporation. 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
383 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 383 of the 722 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMQUEST SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds STARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN STARK ↗
- Who funds REFUGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CANTON FOR ALL PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds Team NEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF MASSILLON INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FARM ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN SENIOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds STARK COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PREBLE COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDEN KEY CENTER FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CANTON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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 Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · The Belden Brick Charitable Trust · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Henry & Louise Timken Foundation · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · Fred F Silk Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Stark County · Mascoma Bank 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 Timken Foundation of Canton 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.
- Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Edge for Tomorrow — 7% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% 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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