· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $12,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENIC | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| GRAND ALMONERS FUND | $5,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL | $5,000 |
| SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH OF NAP | $3,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM F | $3,000 |
| MARYKNOLL SISTERS | $3,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +39%- OSOPERATION SMILE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +14%
Mercy Ships International6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY OF BETHLEHEM HOSIPTALone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $2k
- OSOBLATE SISTERS OF SAINTone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.
World pediatrics' mission is to heal children and advance pediatric healthcare in the world. world pediatrics' program model is built upon long-term engagement and continuity of multi-specialty care through direct patient care and local…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Charity Foundation of CT ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Maria Talisse Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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