· Private foundation
Telaka 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION | $50,000 |
| DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN STAGE | $50,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNSEL | $20,000 |
| HANLEY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $5,000 |
| DICKINSON | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $4,500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $3,000 |
| HAVERFORD SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $2,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TVTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC3× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +121%
- WLWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +181%
- DHDartmouth-Hitchcock Health3× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MIMETCALF INSTITUTEMARINE REPORTINGone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TOTOWN OF NORWICH VT (NHPC) NORWICH HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SHARON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Telaka Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.