How much does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation give?

Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $453,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Religion (21%), Education (14%).

Who are Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel ($430k), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($296k), Holocaust Museum Houston ($200k).

Does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.

Where is Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation based?

Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$453k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2024: 21
Organizations funded FY2023: 38%
First-time grantees FY2023

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53% of Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Houston, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $453k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $97,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 26; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $6.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	22	$433k	9%
FY2023	21	$436k	38%
FY2022	26	$641k	8%
FY2021	21	$368k	29%
FY2020	18	$186k	22%
FY2019	16	$172k	13%
FY2018	21	$290k	29%
FY2017	20	$172k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MReligion$1.0MEducation$694kHuman Services$462kArts & Culture$330kHealth$272kInternational$244kHousing & Shelter$125kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel	$429,950	7	n/a
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston	$295,600	4	0%
Holocaust Museum Houston	$200,000	1	2%
Congregation Beth Israel	$196,750	4	n/a
Jewish Family Service	$175,000	1	2%
Union for Reform Judaism	$160,000	4	n/a
Jewish Children's Regional Service	$141,000	9	1%
Search Homeless Services	$125,000	3	n/a
Institute of Southern Jewish Life	$120,000	8	1%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$90,000	5	0%

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All grantees of Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel	$429,950	7	n/a
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston	$295,600	4	0%
Holocaust Museum Houston	$200,000	1	2%
Congregation Beth Israel	$196,750	4	n/a
Jewish Family Service	$175,000	1	2%
Union for Reform Judaism	$160,000	4	n/a
Jewish Children's Regional Service	$141,000	9	1%
Search Homeless Services	$125,000	3	n/a
Institute of Southern Jewish Life	$120,000	8	1%
Birthright Israel Foundation	$90,000	5	0%
Houston Hillel	$86,429	9	2%
Houston Achievement Place	$83,000	9	1%
Alley Theatre	$80,000	7	0%
Hand in Hand	$68,000	3	4%
The Brookwood Community Inc	$50,000	2	0%
The Rose	$45,000	8	0%
Moishe House	$40,000	4	0%
Casa de Esperanza	$37,500	5	n/a
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra	$36,000	2	0%
Undies for Everyone	$35,000	6	1%
Kids' Meals Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Casa de Esperanza A NJ Nonprofit Corporation	$30,000	1	n/a
American Friends of Libi Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc	$30,000	3	0%
The EmeryWeiner School Foundation	$29,345	1	8%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$20,000	1	n/a
Women on the Way Up	$20,000	8	n/a
Main Street Theater Houston	$20,000	2	0%
Friends of Duvdevan	$20,000	1	1%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn	$15,000	1	0%
Judith Liebenthal Robinson Ovarian Cancer Foundation	$12,000	6	14%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$10,000	2	0%
William Marsh Rice University	$10,000	1	0%
Cade R Alpard Foundation for Pediatric Disease	$8,000	8	2%
Paws for Heroes	$5,000	2	2%
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd	$1,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($788k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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.

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About Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation

How much does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation give?: Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $453,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Religion (21%), Education (14%).
Who are Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Irvin M Shlenker School of Congregation Beth Israel ($430k), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($296k), Holocaust Museum Houston ($200k).
Does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation based?: Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation is based in TX.