· Private foundation
Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO | $500,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $289,994 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $287,340 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $250,880 |
| HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| BOYSVILLE INC | $180,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $116,666 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $116,666 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $116,666 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBOYSVILLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +9%
- ICI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC7× · 2019–2025 · $415k · revenue +84%
- RFRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST5× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - 2019 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDone grant, 2021 · $267k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER - 2021 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDone grant, 2021 · $233k
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.
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.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
The mission of Texas Heart Institute (THI) is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and improved patient care.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the texas healthcare and bioscience institute is to research, develop, and advocate policies and actions that promote biomedical science, biotechnology, agriculture and medical device innovation in texas.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 35 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.
- Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds I CARE SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTHEART ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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