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George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$129k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
47
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 38
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
20
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving47$129k38%
FY202437$110k22%
FY202331$93k26%
FY202238$91k24%
FY202132$90k44%
FY202022$49kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$150kInternational$105kHuman Services$79kHealth$77kHousing & Shelter$48kFood & Nutrition$47kPhilanthropy$31kEducation$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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OK
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$43,00060%
Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer$26,0005n/a
Operation Smile Inc$26,00060%
Mercy Ships International$25,00060%
St Matthews House Inc$19,50060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$17,00030%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$14,00020%
Guadalupe Center Inc$10,00060%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc$9,00020%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$9,00050%
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All grantees of George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$43,00060%
Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer$26,0005n/a
Operation Smile Inc$26,00060%
Mercy Ships International$25,00060%
St Matthews House Inc$19,50060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$17,00030%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$14,00020%
Guadalupe Center Inc$10,00060%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc$9,00020%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$9,00050%
Feed the Hungry Corporation$8,9004n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$8,50050%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$8,50050%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$8,00020%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$7,50050%
Covenant House$7,00050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00030%
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement$5,0004n/a
Catholic Charities Inc$5,0003n/a
International Medical Relief$4,50030%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$4,00030%
Masonic Charity Foundation of CT$4,00030%
Society for the Propagation of the Faith$3,8002n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,50040%
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$3,0002n/a
Feed the Children Inc$2,50020%
Marist Brothers of the Schools Inc$2,0002n/a
MAP International Inc$2,00010%
Support Our Aging Religious Inc$2,00010%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$2,00020%
Americares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Priests of the Sacred Heart$1,0001n/a
March of Dimes Inc$1,00010%
Food for the Poor Inc$1,0001n/a
Catholic Relief Services$1,0001n/a
Masonic Charity Foundation of New Jersey$1,0001n/a
St Josephs Indian School$1,0001n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$50020%
Salesian Missions Inc$5001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Medical Mission Board Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Medical Relief: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMasonic Charity Foundation of CT: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Our Aging Religious Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 27.

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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.

The Michael and Eileen Considine FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Michael and Eileen Considine Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation

How much does George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation give?
George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $129,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), International (19%), Human Services (14%).
Who are George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($43k), Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer ($26k), Operation Smile Inc ($26k).
Does George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Michael and Eileen Considine Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation based?
George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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