· Private foundation
Telamon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIPP INDIANAPOLIS INC | $15,000 |
| THE CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| BOOTH TARKINGTON CIVIC THEATRE | $7,500 |
| KIPP INDIANAPOLIS INC | $5,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TCC GIVES INC | $2,500 |
| City of Carmel | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- KIKipp Indianapolis Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +327%
- TBTHE BOOTH TARKINGTON CIVIC THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +54%
- TTTEACHERS TREASURES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- ICINDY CHAMPIONSHIPS FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
- GIGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +78%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is 4P-Support Group. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 43 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 Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOOTH TARKINGTON CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds INDY CHAMPIONSHIPS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS TREASURES INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN A PHONE INC ↗
- Who funds Christel House Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF MINIATURE HOUSES AND OTHER COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds Discovering Broadway Inc ↗
- Who funds CARMEL CLAY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds 4P-SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND CHRISTMAS CLUB 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Lacy Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Ackerman Foundation · Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
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 Telamon Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.