· Private foundation
Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston | $97,000 |
| The Union for Reform Judaism | $50,000 |
| The EmeryWeiner School | $50,000 |
| SEARCH Homeless Services | $25,000 |
| Hand in Hand | $25,000 |
| SEARCH Homeless Services | $25,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Houston | $20,000 |
| Friends of Duvdevan | $20,000 |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $18,000 |
| Institute of Southern Jewish Life Inc | $15,000 |
| Main Street Theater | $10,000 |
| Alley Theater | $10,000 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $10,000 |
| Houston Hillel Inc | $10,000 |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EREvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston4× · 2019–2025 · $296k · revenue +28%
- JCJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +13%
INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue +45%
- JMJCC MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2018 · $37k
- TEThe EmeryWeiner School Foundationone grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +5%
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.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.
The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 57 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Hillel ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Casa de Esperanza A NJ Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The EmeryWeiner School Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Main Street Theater Houston ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN ↗
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation · The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation · Mechia Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Jake and Nina Kamin Foundation · The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Co Frost Bank · Sally & Bernard Fuchs Charitable Foundation · Adler Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirley and David Toomim Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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