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Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$195k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$105k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Broward Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $195k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192022.

Philanthropy$1.0MReligion$50kHuman Services$11kHealth$1kOther$139k
02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$7,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWARD COUNTY FOUNDATION$105,000
PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY INC$50,000
FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND$25,000
UNITED WAY OF BROWARD CO$7,200
TEMPLE BAT YAM$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND$2,000
KIDS IN DISTRESS$500
ST BALDWICKS FOUNDATION$100
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA: $10k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Broward Behavioral Health Coalition Inc

To deliver a comprehensive array of behavioral health services in the state of florida to eligible children,adolescents, adults, elders and families in the organization's service area and to subcontract with qualified, direct service,…

Health
2
Childnet Inc

Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.

Human Services
3
Bay Area Legal Services Inc

Bay area legal services (bals) is a regional, non-profit public interest law firm providing the highest quality legal counsel by assisting individuals and non-profit groups with limited access to legal services, resolving the legal…

4
Bridgeway Center Inc

Bci's purpose is to deliver behavioral healthcare services, provide compassionate, trauma-informed care, maintain the human dignity of every person, meet community support needs, foster low-income housing, work to end homelessness in…

5
Lighthouse of Broward County Inc

To provide specialized rehabilitation and collaborative healthcare solutions that enhance the independence, productivity, and dignity of children and adults who are blind or visually impaired.

6
Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc

To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…

Human Services
7
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
8
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

9
Florida Center for the Blind Inc

The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.

10
Catholic Palliative Care Services Inc

Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…

11
Broward Community and Family Health Centers Inc

The organization is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing accessible comprehensive high quality primary and preventive care services to all persons with dignity and respect. our focus is on preventive care and health…

Health
12
Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida Inc

Big brothers big sisters association of florida strengthens and expands evidence-based youth mentoring services statewide by providing resources, advocacy, and support to 11 local affiliates.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Public Safety Chaplaincy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC+2 more — $7,300 · PhilanthropyBROWARD COUNTY FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherBROWARD COUNT…FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC — $25,000 · OtherFLORIDA ASSOC…TEMPLE BAT YAM OF EAST FORT LAUDERDALE INC — $5,000 · Other+3 more — $4,000 · OtherPUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY INC — $50,000 · ReligionHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDS IN DISTRESS INC — $500 · Human ServicesHMS SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY — $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,007,300Other$139,000Religion$50,000Human Services$10,500Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerwyn-Paoli Area Little League Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 27%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc27% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee?

Find your warmest path to Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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