Texas · Nonprofit
Tough Kookie Foundation
Tough Kookie Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,000 to it, the largest being Christus Health Ark-La-Tex ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Tough Kookie Foundation receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Texarkana Incshared funderslocal
- 24 Foundation Incportfolio match
- Young Texans Against Cancerportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Tough Kookie Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Tough Kookie Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Tough Kookie Foundation.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Tough Kookie Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 68 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Texarkana Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · funds 14 organizations near you
- 24 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Texans Against Cancerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Expect Miracles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Run for Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Livestrong Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tap Cancer Out Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golf Fights Cancer Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haymakers for Hope Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matthew Hill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cancer League of Colorado Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Tough Kookie Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tough Kookie Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Tough Kookie Foundation?
- Tough Kookie Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,000 to it, the largest being Christus Health Ark-La-Tex ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tough Kookie Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $91,000 in grants to Tough Kookie Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tough Kookie Foundation?
- Christus Health Ark-La-Tex is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tough Kookie Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing