· Private foundation
Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON ISD | $32,000 |
| DENISON ISD | $30,000 |
| DENISON MAIN STREET INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $15,000 |
| SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| SHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| THE SHERMAN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| DENISON PERFORMING ARTS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDENISON ISD9× · 2017–2025 · $659k
- IGIndividual grant recipient8× · 2017–2025 · $120k
- SCSHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GRAYSONone grant, 2020 · $40k
- WVWHITESBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $40k
- TRTEXAS RAMP PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +144%
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 provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
To honor the history of Freestone County
To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
Crime Stop.
Provide library services including books, computerized library services, literacy/learning programs for all ages to the citizens of Rhome and surrounding areas of Wise County Texas.
The denison service league is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
Presevering historical information in grant county
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Pregnancy counseling
The education of the public on Shelby County history.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 SHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds DENISON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds THE SHERMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER TEXOMA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS ↗
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: The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable · Texoma Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dr & Mrs Paul Pierce Memorial Foundation · Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson · United Way of Grayson County Inc · R D Beirne Trust Fund · Tr Uw Minnie M Jones · Texoma Medical Center Volunteers
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family 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.
Play a game based on Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family’s filings →