Tocker Foundation Grants

History

The Tocker Foundation was established in 1964 to implement the philanthropic interests of Phillip and Olive Tocker. Phillip Tocker was a practicing attorney but changed careers in his later years by purchasing the Waco outdoor advertising plant and later expanding to own outdoor advertising plants throughout the United States. His vocational career culminated to the position of President of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. After retiring to Austin in 1973, Phillip and Olive Tocker actively pursued their avocations. Phillip and Olive Tocker endowed the foundation with their estates in 1994 and 1993 respectively.

In 1992 the foundation board decided to focus grant distribution to small rural libraries in Texas serving a population of 12,000 or less. The direction is to assist libraries in making services more accessible to individuals who by reason of distance, residence, handicap, age, literacy level or other disadvantage are unable to receive the benefits of public library services. Grants are distributed to assisting libraries to serve as community information referral centers and provide literacy and bilingual programs. The Foundation partners with community libraries to meet the particular needs of the community.

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421,113 Items	14 Types	503 Titles
104 Partners	19 Decades	4 Languages
159 Counties	32 States	3 Countries
18,555,133 Usage	17 years, 2 months ago Collection Created	1 week, 5 days ago Last Updated

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Latest Item #1: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Latest Item #2: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Latest Item #3: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Latest Item #4: The Villager (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 2010

Latest Item #5: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Latest Item #6: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Latest Item #7: Foghorn (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 21, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Latest Item #8: The Villager (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 2008

Latest Item #9: Siren (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 2006

Latest Item #10: The Villager (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 2007

Latest Item #11: Siren (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 2005

Latest Item #12: Siren (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 2005

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Tocker Foundation Grants in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TFG/ accessed June 8, 2026.

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