Vermont · 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.
- $249k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- 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 Telaka Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $249k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $253k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $572k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $773k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $221k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $181k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $181k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $158k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Northern Stage Company | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $92,428 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Sustainable Communities | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hanley Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 5% |
| High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc | $34,528 | 9 | 1% |
| Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School | $26,400 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Telaka Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Telaka Foundation
- How much does Telaka Foundation give?
- Telaka Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $249,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Telaka Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (76%), Health (11%), Education (6%).
- Who are Telaka Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc ($140k), Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc ($125k), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ($110k).
- Does Telaka Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Telaka 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 Telaka Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, The Vermont Community Foundation, Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Telaka Foundation based?
- Telaka Foundation is based in VT.
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