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The Toole Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Toole Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$400kEmployment$304kEnvironment$111kArts & Culture$94kHealth$78kPhilanthropy$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OURMEDIA$90,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$15,000
KQED$15,000
GLOBALMINDED$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$5,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
DIGITAL NEST$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $1k → 14%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 12%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $1k → 14%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 12%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 14%BOULDER JCC: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%RED CROSS: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 18 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +152% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
36

Total granted

$845k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+152%
+19%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +515%
  • SF
    SEMI Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue ×18
  • DN
    DIGITAL NEST INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • LJ
    Lehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -21%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
3
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $235,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITYMICHAEL J FOX PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherMICHAEL J FOX PARKINSON'S FOUNDATIONJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $21,000 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+39 more: $145,300 · Other+39 moreFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $130,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNI…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…SEMI Foundation: $47,000 · EducationSEMI FoundationGLOBALMINDED: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $4,000 · EducationOURMEDIA INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $65,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $67,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $45,000 · PhilanthropyDIGITAL NEST INC: $37,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$591,300Education$261,000Environment$90,000International$86,000Arts & Culture$82,000Philanthropy$45,000Youth Development$38,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $67,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMI Foundation: $47,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Raymond James Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Toole Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Toole Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Toole Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Toole Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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