Texas · Private foundation
The Tobin Endowment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,792,457
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $149M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Tobin Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $3.1M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $3.2M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $2.0M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art | $3,442,457 | 2 | 10% |
| The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund | $2,000,000 | 4 | 91% |
| Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy | $925,000 | 3 | 50% |
| McNay Art Museum | $846,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $720,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $616,664 | 5 | 1% |
| BioBridge Global | $575,860 | 2 | 2% |
| San Antonio Report | $300,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Children's Shelter | $272,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc | $175,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($854k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Tobin Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · 80-20 Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Mays Family Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Tobin Endowment
- How much does The Tobin Endowment give?
- The Tobin Endowment reported 13 grants totaling $3,098,087 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Tobin Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Health (11%), Environment (9%).
- Who are The Tobin Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art ($3.4M), The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund ($2.0M), Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy ($925k).
- Does The Tobin Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tobin Endowment accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Tobin Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Tobin Endowment based?
- The Tobin Endowment is based in TX.
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