· Private foundation
Timken-Sturgis 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 $10k26 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIO SDY | $10,000 |
| WHALE TRUST | $6,000 |
| ICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $6,000 |
| DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| CARSON VLY COMM FOOD CLST | $5,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $4,000 |
| EAST FORK FIRE AND PARAMEDIC DISTRICTS | $3,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| DOUGLAS CO SHERIFFS SEACH & R | $3,000 |
| THE COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| MAUI SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +74% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +62%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +35%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +78%
Funded once
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +41%- FOFRIENDS OF GENOAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +189%
- LTLake Tahoe Wildlife Care Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -35%
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.
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Thorne Bay Library. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE THORNE BAY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA WOMEN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds Between Horses and Humans ↗
- Who funds CARSON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Austin's House ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
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: Wray Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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-Sturgis 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.