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Telemachus Foundation to Empower the Poor and End War at a glance

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Telemachus Foundation to Empower the Poor and End War

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$661kHealth$301kEducation$241kHuman Services$208kCivil Rights$179kScience & Tech$160kFood & Nutrition$99kArts & Culture$89kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $198k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND$30,000
ADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY$27,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$20,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$18,000
EMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE$16,000
ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION$16,000
NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION$16,000
WHITETULIP HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE$15,000
REPRIEVE$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE$10,000
UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE$6,500
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$6,000
HOLY CROSS MINISTRIES$6,000
CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION IN INDIA: $20k → 11%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $6k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $25k → 14%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%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

NH
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 32 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
20

Total granted

$1.9M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • PA
    PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +8%
  • SL
    Salt Lake Community College Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $152k · revenue +53%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $135k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +23%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +117%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION IN
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
2
Institute for Eastwest Studies Inc

Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)

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3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
5
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
6
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
7
Fcnl Education Fund

The fcnl education fund (the education fund)'s research, analysis, and educational work inform members of the public and government leaders about issues of peace, justice, and environmental stewardship that are of concern to the religious…

Public Benefit
8
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc

UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent…

International
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
11
Solar Cookers International

The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Environment
12
Friends Peace Teams Inc

Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peace building, healing & reconciliation based on extensive Quaker experience.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Prospect 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 53 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)
11
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

PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $360,000 · InternationalPEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUNDTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $135,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCGLOBAL ZERO: $100,000 · InternationalGLOBAL ZEROFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $73,618 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INCTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $51,155 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURENational Iranian American Council: $40,000 · InternationalNonviolent Peaceforce: $40,000 · InternationalThe Arms Control Associations: $30,000 · International+6 more: $57,000 · International+6 moreREPRIEVE: $112,600 · OtherREPRIEVECATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $46,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF…YWCA: $46,000 · OtherYWCANAACP LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $45,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE EDUCATIONA…FLOURISH VENTURES: $45,000 · OtherFLOURISH VENTURESEastern Mennonite University: $38,000 · OtherEastern Mennonite UniversityANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC: $30,000 · OtherENGAGE NOW AFRICAN ED FUND GHANA: $27,000 · Other4TH STREET CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherUVU FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Other4TH STREEET CLINIC: $21,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION IN: $20,000 · OtherUTAH CONTRACEPTION FUND: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $78,600 · Other+12 moreSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $151,750 · EducationSalt Lake…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN …Dual Immersion Academy: $6,500 · Education+1 more: $3,700 · EducationWHITETULIP HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 · HealthWHITETULI…Holy Cross Ministries of Utah: $46,000 · HealthHoly Cros…ADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY INC: $77,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center: $46,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION IN INDIA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE: $81,000 · Arts & CultureThe Leonardo: $10,000 · Arts & CultureANATOLIA CULTURAL CENTERS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $60,500 · Environment
International$886,773Other$576,200Education$186,950Health$175,000Human Services$168,000Arts & Culture$96,000Environment$60,500

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 budgetPEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $360,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $151,750 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHITETULIP HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetGLOBAL ZERO: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE: $81,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY INC: $77,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $73,618 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $60,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $51,155 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $46,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHoly Cross Ministries of Utah: $46,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFLOURISH VENTURES: $45,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNational Iranian American Council: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEastern Mennonite University: $38,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arms Control Associations: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEmpower Mali: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROSPECT FOUNDATION: $9,600 over 1y, 67% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDual Immersion Academy: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANATOLIA CULTURAL CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetRESTORING ANCESTRAL WINDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBETTER WORLD FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUtah International Charter School: $3,700 over 2y, 0.1% 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 PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITETULIP HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ZERO ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • Who funds Holy Cross Ministries of Utah ↗
  • Who funds FLOURISH VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds National Iranian American Council ↗
  • Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Mennonite University ↗
  • Who funds The Arms Control Associations ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION IN INDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
  • Who funds The Leonardo ↗
  • Who funds Empower Mali ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds Dual Immersion Academy ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Ploughshares Fund IncJohn D and Catherine …Dominion Energy Chari…The Archer Family Cha…The Samuel Rubin Foun…Jubitz Family Foundat…Hemingway FoundationDavid Kelby Johnson M…Intermountain Communi…McCarthey Family Foun…Thom & Gail Williamse…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Ploughshares Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · The Samuel Rubin Foundation Inc · Jubitz Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family 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 Telemachus Foundation to Empower the Poor and End War funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telemachus Foundation to Empower the Poor and End War. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Telemachus Foundation to Empower the Poor and End War through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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