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Tocker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$7.2MArts & Culture$668kHuman Services$406kReligion$203kCrime & Legal$112kHealth$57kPhilanthropy$52kCivil Rights$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 110 grants below total $2,533,788, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,674,754 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $140,966 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $628k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
$7,007
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Sundown Library$100,000
Jewish Community Assoc. of Austin$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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 145 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
141

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

24%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $444k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • WL
    WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +0%
  • SA
    SHALOM AUSTIN
    3× · 2018–2024 · $203k · revenue +94%
  • TL
    TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Texas - Other
    one grant, 2018 · $115k
  • TT
    Texas Tech University
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
  • PP
    Poteet Public Library
    one grant, 2018 · $54k
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.

03Its 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
Friends of the Corsicana Public Library
Education
2
Comfort Public Library Inc

Provide complete library service for the community of comfort and surrounding areas.

Education
3
Library Club of Menard Inc

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.

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4
Fairfield Library Association

Providing library services to persons in and around fairfield, texas

—
5
Bonham Public Library Board

Offering all library services to the Bonham area community.

Education
6
El Progreso Library

Public Library

—
7
Pittsburg Public Library Board

To provide free access to ideas, materials, and services that support the recreational, educational, and cultural enrichment of the community.

Public Benefit
8
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
9
New Ipswich Library
—
10
Breckenridge Library & Fine Arts Found
—
11
Blanco Library Inc

To support the Public Library in Blanco Texas

Education
12
The Library Collective
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson City Library Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 316 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $300,000 · OtherAustin Public Library Foundation: $265,500 · Other+168 more: $7,196,618 · Other+168 moreAlpine Public Library Association Inc: $108,504 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE PORT O CONNOR LIBRARY INC: $55,610 · EducationWhitehouse Community Library Inc: $54,636 · EducationPartners Library Action Network: $50,000 · EducationMARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HISTORY MUSEUM: $36,030 · EducationSt Edwards University: $30,550 · EducationBookSpring: $29,952 · EducationTarkington Community Library Inc: $24,230 · EducationMERIDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $20,723 · EducationSAMMY BROWN LIBRARY: $20,494 · EducationOLNEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $17,340 · Education+5 more: $63,459 · EducationSHALOM AUSTIN: $203,100 · PhilanthropyWACO FOUNDATION: $21,500 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,100 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $155,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $38,000 · Human ServicesNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat: $77,564 · Arts & CultureThe Texas State Historical Association: $45,000 · Arts & CultureJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $22,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $13,700 · Arts & CultureTexas Early Music Project: $13,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $48,022 · HealthVolunteer Services Council for the Abilene: $12,000 · Health
Other$7,762,118Education$511,528Philanthropy$253,700Human Services$193,000Arts & Culture$191,764Health$60,022

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $300,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $203,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $160,401 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $155,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $111,674 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAlpine Public Library Association Inc: $108,504 over 3y, 24% of budgetNational Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat: $77,564 over 2y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PORT O CONNOR LIBRARY INC: $55,610 over 4y, 29% of budgetWhitehouse Community Library Inc: $54,636 over 2y, 78% of budgetPartners Library Action Network: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $48,022 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $38,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HISTORY MUSEUM: $36,030 over 3y, 11% of budgetSt Edwards University: $30,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBookSpring: $29,952 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJOHNSON CITY LIBRARY INC: $26,969 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFreedom to Read Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $20,723 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSAMMY BROWN LIBRARY: $20,494 over 2y, 16% of budgetCANDID: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHLEICHER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17,436 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetHARPER LIBRARY: $16,680 over 1y, 20% of budgetMARTINDALE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $15,886 over 2y, 12% of budgetMARFA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $13,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Early Music Project: $13,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetVolunteer Services Council for the Abilene: $12,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetABILENE LIBRARY CONSORTIUM: $12,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOLDSPRING AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $11,621 over 2y, 12% of budgetCHICO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $9,365 over 1y, 11% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WAVERLY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $6,528 over 1y, 5.9% 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.

  • Who funds WRITERS' LEAGUE OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Alpine Public Library Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds National Center for Childrens Illustrated Literat ↗

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 Foun…Prentice Farrar Brown…St David's FoundationBetter Business BureauThe Moody FoundationJ Frank Dobie Library…The Summerlee Foundat…Ladd & Katherine Hanc…Still Water FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Carl C Anderson Sr an…The Burdine Johnson F…
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Tocker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tocker 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 316 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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