Timken Foundation of Canton

OVERVIEW: Timken supports a range of issues relevant to the communities in which they are active all over the world. Grants range from K-12 education to community development.

IP TAKE: Timken is an approachable funder, but its areas of focus in health are not discernable. It’s a general global health funder that supports grantmaking in the Canton, Ohio area; however, it prioritizes grantmaking in the geographic regions in which the Timken Company operates, including a number of international locations.

PROFILE: German immigrant Henry Timken co-founded the Timken Roller Bearing and Axle Company in the late 1890s. In 1934, Henry Timken and his sisters established the Timken Foundation of Canton to give back to the community that supported their business.

Grants for Global and Public Health

The foundation is a very quiet grantmaker that broadly invests in health. Grants in this area have become fewer in recent grantmaking years and have shifted to concentrating on the U.S.

It does not implement a specific grantmaking strategy in order to consider a broader range of grantees, but also does so due to its small size. For instance, the foundation funds global health issues related to specific diseases and conditions such as leprosy and blindness. It also invests in a wide variety of global issues, such as women’s health. State side, Timken has given some of it’s largest grants to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Grants for Education

Timken Foundation uses their funds to broadly support education, from early childhood education through higher education efforts. Grantmaking here doesn’t not reflect a discernable pattern since the foundation has made grants for such a wide range of education outfits.

In a recent year, they funded “Association for Education and Family,” a family kindergarten in Katowice, Poland. Their dedication to higher education is also demonstrated through their donations to Walsh University in Canton, Ohio. In China, Timken gave a grant to the Jiangyin Yushanwan Experimental School to rebuild its theater. In North Carolina, Lincoln County Public Schools received a grant for the Outdoor Learning Classroom at GE Massey Elementary School.

Grants for Housing and Community Development

Timken’s grants in this area span the global, but concentrate in the U.S. This area of giving has become a major area for Timken in recent years. Grantmaking interests have ranged from a grant for the Habitat for Humanity in Romania to Houston’s Amazing Place, Inc. for the New West Houston Facility. The foundation has also made grants to several museums and institutions all over the world to improve their facilities in some capacity like replacing a roof or expanding buildings, as in the case of the Putnam Foundation in San Diego.

Grants for Economic Development

Some of Timken’s largest grants have invested in economic development work that improves opportunity, skills training and other related concerns, especially in Canton, Ohio, as in the case of the Stark Community Foundation, but geographic preferences for this work do not reflect a hard and fast rule.

Important Grant Details:

Grants tend to support local organizations in the international communities in which the Timken Company operates. Timken's grants range from $25,000 to about $1,500,000. The foundation lacks a formal structure, rendering specific funding priorities unclear. It accepts unsolicited letters of inquiry, and does not have submission deadlines.

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CONTACT:

200 Market Avenue N. #210
Canton, OH, 44702
(330) 452-1144