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Telecompioneers

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$189k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$867kHuman Services$126kHealth$120kEducation$95kAnimals$83kPublic Benefit$54kFood & Nutrition$41kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $126,320, the rows itemized in this filing. The $188,820 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
$113,025
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELECOM PIONEERS CHARITABLE$113,025
Individual grant recipient$13,295
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 (FY19–22, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Catalyst Domestic Violence: $6k → 18%Healing Species Inc: $6k → 25%YMCA: $7k → 12%A Soldier's Child Foundation: $15k → 9%Americas Grow-A-Row: $10k → 5%Canine Campanions for Independence: $8k → 9%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET: $8k → 14%Americas Grow-A-Row: $5k → 5%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

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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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +167% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
32

Total granted

$1.2M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+167%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TC
    TELECOMPIONEERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $843k · revenue +223% · 76% of their budget
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $106k · revenue +99%
  • PD
    PILOT DOGS ALLOWAY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +322%

Funded once

  • CT
    CARRY THE LOAD
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +5%
  • AS
    A SOLDIERS CHILD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America

The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…

Human Services
3
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
6
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
7
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
8
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc

Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.

Human Services
9
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
10
Service Dogs Alabama Inc

Service dogs alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disablilites as well as intervention facility dogs. service dogs alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to…

Animals
11
Soldiers' Angels

Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay

Goodwill is a 501(c)3 local, nonprofit employment social enterprise that creates life changing opportunities for people in the community through training and the power of work. the people goodwill trains and places in jobs include people…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Please 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

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TELECOMPIONEERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $843,408 · PhilanthropyTELECOMPIONEERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+1 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $57,075 · OtherPILOT DOGS ALLOWAYGRIFFITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · OtherGRIFFITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ED…Apache Junction High School: $30,000 · OtherApache Junction High Schoo…THE SALVATION ARMY: $24,874 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYApache Junction High School: $20,000 · OtherApache Junction High Schoo…NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $13,824 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,295 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF EASTERN KANSAS INC: $12,891 · OtherSEMPERFIDO FUND: $12,000 · OtherCDI INTERNATIONAL INC ATTN RODRIGO BALGGIO: $12,000 · Other+19 more: $117,430 · Other+19 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS INC: $106,108 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,125 · HealthAmericas Grow-A-Row: $15,250 · Human ServicesA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,707 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $6,800 · Human ServicesHEALING SPECIES INC: $6,049 · Human ServicesCatalyst Domestic Violence Services: $6,000 · Human ServicesWreaths Across America: $33,674 · Public BenefitVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $7,500 · Public BenefitSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $28,750 · Housing & ShelterThe Please Foundation: $16,977 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$866,908Other$347,389Health$112,233Human Services$72,306Public Benefit$41,174Housing & Shelter$28,750Youth Development$16,977

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 budgetTELECOMPIONEERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $843,408 over 2y, 76% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS INC: $106,108 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $57,075 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWreaths Across America: $33,674 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $28,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $23,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Please Foundation: $16,977 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAmericas Grow-A-Row: $15,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF EASTERN KANSAS INC: $12,891 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMYRIAD GARDENS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,707 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION: $7,379 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $7,329 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $6,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING SPECIES INC: $6,049 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCatalyst Domestic Violence Services: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $5,930 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC6.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Telecompioneers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telecompioneers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 45 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $70k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home