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Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee

Its FY2025 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

6
’19
1
’20
3
’22

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$500
02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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4
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of god's love.

Health
5
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…

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6
The Broward Alliance

To lead greater fort lauderdale and broward county in building a stronger and more diversified economy.

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7
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.

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8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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.

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12
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colker Family Foundation Tom Toscani Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) 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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