How much does Tocker Foundation give?

Tocker Foundation reported 110 itemized grants totaling $2,533,788, out of $2,674,754 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 135 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Tocker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Arts & Culture (5%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Tocker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Writers' League of Texas ($300k), Shalom Austin ($203k), Texas Library Association ($160k).

Does Tocker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tocker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tocker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Prentice Farrar Brown and Alline Ford Brown, St David's Foundation.

Where is Tocker Foundation based?

Tocker Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Tocker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 110
Itemized grants FY2024: 89
Organizations funded FY2023: 34%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $7,007
Largest grant, FY2024: $102,790
Organizations funded a year: 89 to 135; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $16M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Tocker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	93	$2.5M	29%
FY2023	89	$1.6M	34%
FY2022	106	$1.3M	44%
FY2019	127	$1.7M	58%
FY2018	135	$2.0M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$7.2MArts & Culture$668kHuman Services$406kReligion$203kCrime & Legal$112kHealth$57kPhilanthropy$52kCivil Rights$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Writers' League of Texas	$300,000	5	20%
Shalom Austin	$203,100	3	1%
Texas Library Association	$160,401	5	4%
Austin Groups for the Elderly	$155,000	4	2%
The Safe Alliance	$111,674	5	0%
Alpine Public Library Association Inc	$108,504	3	24%
Dublin Public Library Inc	$93,956	5	n/a
National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat	$77,564	2	12%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	$65,000	4	n/a
Friends of the Port O Connor Library Inc	$55,610	4	29%

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All grantees of Tocker Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Writers' League of Texas	$300,000	5	20%
Shalom Austin	$203,100	3	1%
Texas Library Association	$160,401	5	4%
Austin Groups for the Elderly	$155,000	4	2%
The Safe Alliance	$111,674	5	0%
Alpine Public Library Association Inc	$108,504	3	24%
Dublin Public Library Inc	$93,956	5	n/a
National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat	$77,564	2	12%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	$65,000	4	n/a
Friends of the Port O Connor Library Inc	$55,610	4	29%
Whitehouse Community Library Inc	$54,636	2	78%
Mineola Memorial Library Inc	$53,330	2	n/a
Brazoria Community Library Association	$53,059	2	n/a
Partners Library Action Network	$50,000	1	17%
Flatonia Public Library Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Alvin Community College	$49,740	2	n/a
The Settlement Club	$48,022	5	0%
The Texas State Historical Association	$45,000	2	1%
Womens Storybook Project of Texas	$38,000	4	2%
Marathon Public Library and History Museum	$36,030	3	11%
St Edwards University	$30,550	2	0%
BookSpring	$29,952	2	2%
Johnson City Library Inc	$26,969	2	7%
Freedom to Read Foundation	$25,000	1	6%
Tarkington Community Library Inc	$24,230	2	n/a
James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts	$22,000	2	1%
Buna Public Library Inc	$20,922	3	n/a
Meridian Library Association Inc	$20,723	1	9%
Sammy Brown Library	$20,494	2	16%
Candid	$20,000	2	0%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$20,000	1	0%
Edwards Public Library	$19,312	1	n/a
Schleicher County Public Library	$17,436	5	10%
Olney Community Library Inc	$17,340	2	n/a
Harper Library	$16,680	1	20%
Martindale Community Library	$15,886	2	12%
Marfa Education Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	11%
The Chinati Foundation	$13,700	3	0%
Texas Early Music Project	$13,500	5	2%
Volunteer Services Council for the Abilene	$12,000	1	9%
Abilene Library Consortium	$12,000	3	1%
Coldspring Area Public Library Inc	$11,621	2	12%
Big Bend Citizens Alliance	$11,294	1	n/a
Laguna Park Library	$10,000	2	n/a
Chico Public Library Inc	$9,365	1	11%
Eula and David Wintermann Library	$8,725	1	n/a
New Waverly Public Library Inc	$6,528	1	6%
Cross Plains Public Library	$6,274	2	n/a
Tll Temple Memorial Library & Archives	$4,647	2	0%
Friends of Libraries & Archives of TX DBA Texas Library & Archives Foundation	$4,000	1	6%
New Braunfels Community Cat Coalition	$4,000	1	9%
Bullard Community Library Inc	$3,722	2	3%
Saint Jo Public Library	$3,390	2	n/a
East Parker County Library	$3,147	1	3%
Project Transitions Inc	$3,062	2	0%
Tuskegee Alumni Club of Central Texas	$3,050	1	n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$2,500	1	0%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc	$2,180	2	0%
Kirbyville Public Library	$2,168	1	n/a
Winters Public Library	$2,066	1	n/a
Medina Community Library	$1,853	1	1%
Taft Public Library Inc	$1,710	1	n/a
Hillsboro Interfaith Ministries Inc	$1,300	3	1%
Austin Playhouse	$1,100	1	n/a
Texas Cultural Trust Council	$1,000	1	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$1,000	1	0%
New Milestones Foundation Inc Dba Integral Care Foundation	$1,000	1	2%
Marfa Public Radio Corporation	$1,000	1	n/a
Austin Book Arts Center	$600	2	0%
Texas Freedom to Read Project	$500	1	n/a
Hillsboro Isd Education Foundation	$500	1	n/a
New Braunfels Public Library Ftd	$500	1	1%
Austin Child Guidance Center	$100	1	0%
Austin Chamber Music Center	$100	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 239 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.

Tocker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX28.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Tocker Foundation

How much does Tocker Foundation give?: Tocker Foundation reported 110 itemized grants totaling $2,533,788, out of $2,674,754 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 135 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Tocker Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Arts & Culture (5%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Tocker Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Writers' League of Texas ($300k), Shalom Austin ($203k), Texas Library Association ($160k).
Does Tocker Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tocker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tocker Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Prentice Farrar Brown and Alline Ford Brown, St David's Foundation.
Where is Tocker Foundation based?: Tocker Foundation is based in TX.