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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$2.1MHealth$300kEducation$173kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$55kInternational$18kHousing & Shelter$16kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN STAGE$50,000
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH$50,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%SAFE FUTURES: $500 → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $400 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 40 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
12

Total granted

$2.6M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+50%

Still filing today

73%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TV
    THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue +121%
  • WL
    WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +181%
  • NS
    NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MI
    METCALF INSTITUTEMARINE REPORTING
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TO
    TOWN OF NORWICH VT (NHPC) NORWICH HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
5
Western New England University

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…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
8
University of Hartford

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.

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION FOR MARINE & ENVIRONMENT: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION FOR MARINE & ENVIRONMENTNATURE CONSERVANCY OF VT: $205,300 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF VTNATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNSEL: $136,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNSELCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $106,500 · OtherCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATIONMETCALF INSTITUTEMARINE REPORTING: $100,000 · OtherMETCALF INSTITUTEMARINE REPORTING+20 more: $208,028 · Other+20 moreTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $140,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENT…WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CO…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COA…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC: $15,000 · Environment+3 more: $14,000 · EnvironmentDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $110,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $92,428 · Health+3 more: $12,000 · HealthALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $26,400 · EducationTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $20,000 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $16,500 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $12,500 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $70,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $13,400 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,300 · InternationalHANLEY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,755,828Environment$414,000Health$214,428Education$145,400Arts & Culture$100,000International$92,700Philanthropy$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $140,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $125,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $92,428 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $34,528 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $26,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $13,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPINE POINT SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $1,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Aetna Foundation IncThe Vermont Community…Bny Mellon Charitable…National Philanthropi…Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
Aetna Foundation IncCT13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Telaka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telaka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 52 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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