· Private foundation
Tocker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 110 grants below total $2,533,788 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,674,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,966 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $628k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alpine Public Library | $102,790 |
| Commerce Public Library | $100,990 |
| Sarah Bain Chandler Library | $100,774 |
| Alvord Public Library | $100,720 |
| Decatur Public Library | $100,150 |
| Centennial Memorial Library | $100,090 |
| Jeff Davis County Library | $100,060 |
| Sherman Co. Public Library | $100,030 |
| Jewish Community Assoc. of Austin | $100,000 |
| Sundown Library | $100,000 |
| Wimberley Village Library | $100,000 |
| Jennie Trent Dew Library | $89,625 |
| National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature | $76,564 |
| Hillsboro City Library | $75,000 |
| Harry Ransom Center | $75,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $444k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WLWRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS5× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +0%
- SASHALOM AUSTIN3× · 2018–2024 · $203k · revenue +94%
- TLTEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Texas - Otherone grant, 2018 · $115k
- TTTexas Tech Universityone grant, 2022 · $55k
- PPPoteet Public Libraryone grant, 2018 · $54k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide complete library service for the community of comfort and surrounding areas.
To own, operate and maintain a public library and all facilities necessary or appropriate thereto to service the needs of people in and around Menard, Texas.
Providing library services to persons in and around fairfield, texas
Offering all library services to the Bonham area community.
Public Library
To provide free access to ideas, materials, and services that support the recreational, educational, and cultural enrichment of the community.
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
To support the Public Library in Blanco Texas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson City Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 316 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Prentice Farrar Brown and Alline Ford Brown · St David's Foundation · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · J Frank Dobie Library Charitable Trust · The Summerlee Foundation · Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation Inc · Still Water Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Burdine Johnson Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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