How much does Tucker Foundation give?

Tucker Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $59,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tucker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (16%), Religion (15%).

Who are Tucker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy Street ($28k), Dallas Leadership Foundation ($25k), Dallas 24 Hour Club Inc ($21k).

Does Tucker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tucker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Tucker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, W P & Bulah Luse Foundation.

Where is Tucker Foundation based?

Tucker Foundation is based in TX.

Tucker Foundation

Tucker Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tucker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$59k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$46kHuman Services$37kReligion$34kFood & Nutrition$27kYouth Development$22kCommunity Improvement$18kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,600

Median grant

States reached

$448k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BONTON FARMS	$6,600
VNA	$6,600
OUR CALLING	$6,600
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB	$6,600
THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH	$6,600
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION	$6,600
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL	$6,600
CITY HOUSE	$6,600
MERCY STREET	$6,600

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$256k · 28 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$256k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+46%

Still filing today

61%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

DL
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +282%
D2
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +136%
WD
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +88%

Funded once

EA
EVERY AVENUE
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -51%
MF
Mater Filius of Dallas Inc
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -80%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -40%

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.

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health

Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health

Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education

Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.

Health

Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health

Faith Presbyterian Providers Inc

To provide hospice and physician services to residents in the dallas metroplex and training to physicians and other care givers on providing these services. faith presbyterian providers is currently dormant.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 51 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$150,800Human Services$43,300Youth Development$28,100Public Benefit$24,600Education$19,600Health$13,000Religion$5,000

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.

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX31.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Instruments Foundation · Capital for Kids · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable 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 Tucker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tucker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home