· Private foundation
Louis and Joyce Tucker Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Louis and Joyce Tucker Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $250k+1 grant · $931k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust | $930,674 |
| National Philanthropic Trust | $20,864 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Dress for Success | $2,000 |
| Partnership for Better Health | $2,000 |
| Dress for Success | $1,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue -45%
- APAmazing Place2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
- HHHouston Hospice2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AHANGELA HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PFPartnership For Better Healingone grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 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. 5 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis and Joyce Tucker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Joyce Tucker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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