How much does Telescope Fund give?

Telescope Fund reported 35 grants totaling $10,306,669 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 74 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does Telescope Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Civil Rights (21%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are Telescope Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: One Arizona ($4.2M), Florida Rising Together Inc ($3.0M), Alliance for Youth Organizing ($2.3M).

Does Telescope Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Telescope Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Telescope Fund

TELESCOPE FUND partners with donors to expand their philanthropic giving by providing them with the tools to catalyze their vision for change and supporting strategic grantmaking, efficient operations, expert advising, and innovative problem solving.

$10M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2024: 74
Organizations funded FY2023: 41%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,200,000
Organizations funded a year: 51 to 74; FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 21
Total assets, FY2024: $28M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Telescope Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	32	$9.9M	63%
FY2023	74	$33M	41%
FY2022	51	$28M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$29MCivil Rights$15MPhilanthropy$7.9MEducation$6.1MCommunity Improvement$3.5MHuman Services$3.1MEnvironment$3.0MInternational$2.3MOther$0

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, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Arizona	$4,170,000	2	31%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$2,965,000	2	11%
Alliance for Youth Organizing	$2,250,000	2	9%
The Recycling Partnership Inc	$2,225,000	2	5%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative	$2,150,000	2	17%
Pennsylvania Voice	$2,150,000	3	37%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund	$2,100,000	2	19%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$2,000,000	2	11%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$1,950,000	2	1%
Alabama Forward	$1,800,000	2	36%

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All grantees of Telescope Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Arizona	$4,170,000	2	31%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$2,965,000	2	11%
Alliance for Youth Organizing	$2,250,000	2	9%
The Recycling Partnership Inc	$2,225,000	2	5%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative	$2,150,000	2	17%
Pennsylvania Voice	$2,150,000	3	37%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund	$2,100,000	2	19%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$2,000,000	2	11%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$1,950,000	2	1%
Alabama Forward	$1,800,000	2	36%
Center for Civic Policy	$1,575,000	2	19%
Imagine North Carolina First	$1,552,437	2	26%
Isaiah	$1,402,436	3	10%
We the People MI	$1,375,000	2	30%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund	$1,250,000	3	9%
New Georgia Project Inc	$1,250,000	2	5%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc	$1,200,000	2	14%
Blueprint North Carolina	$1,150,000	1	12%
Promote the Vote Fund Inc	$1,100,000	2	54%
Faith in Florida Inc	$1,050,000	2	17%
We Are Down Home	$1,050,000	2	24%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc	$1,000,000	1	16%
Save Ukraine Inc	$1,000,000	1	33%
Mississippi Votes	$1,000,000	2	18%
Superhumans Ukraine Inc	$1,000,000	1	4%
Activate 48 Education Fund	$1,000,000	3	19%
Democracy North Carolina	$950,000	2	12%
The Ole Education Fund	$950,000	2	14%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition	$900,000	2	16%
Arizona Center for Empowerment	$900,000	2	7%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc	$900,000	2	2%
Law Forward Inc	$900,000	2	19%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$850,000	3	8%
State Voices	$850,000	2	3%
Freedom Inc	$830,000	2	9%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada	$800,000	2	36%
Voice of the Experienced Vote	$800,000	2	9%
Virginia New Majority Education Fund	$800,000	3	5%
Voces de la Frontera Inc	$800,000	2	12%
Feed the Children Inc	$800,000	2	0%
Music Will Inc	$750,000	1	12%
Foundation for the Mid South Inc	$750,000	1	47%
Forward Justice	$700,000	2	9%
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights Inc	$700,000	2	16%
Make The Road States Inc	$700,000	2	3%
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc	$680,000	1	1%
Naeva	$650,000	2	28%
North Carolina Asian Americans Together	$650,000	2	15%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$650,000	2	14%
Dions Chicago Dream Inc Nfp	$600,000	1	10%
Women With A Vision	$600,000	2	9%
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice	$580,000	2	2%
NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe	$575,000	2	36%
One Voice	$550,000	2	9%
National Arbor Day Foundation	$500,000	1	1%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$500,000	2	2%
Asian Community Development Council	$500,000	2	6%
GVNGorg	$479,500	2	20%
Galeo Latino Community Develop Fund Inc	$400,000	1	21%
Scholarship America Inc	$350,000	1	0%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc	$350,000	1	5%
Instituto Lab	$300,000	1	24%
Mothering Justice	$300,000	1	10%
Public Allies Inc	$300,000	1	1%
N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc	$300,000	1	7%
Michigan Voices	$280,000	1	9%
Ohio Voice	$250,000	1	7%
Volunteers of America Inc	$250,000	1	n/a
Globalgiving Foundation Inc	$237,000	1	0%
Games for Change Inc	$200,000	1	5%
Corpsgiving Foundation	$135,000	2	4%
Choc Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Camp Korey	$100,000	1	3%
Keep Jackson Beautiful	$100,000	1	42%
Skillpointe Foundation	$57,500	1	4%
Bloom To Life	$50,000	1	61%
New PA Project Education Fund	$50,000	1	4%
Progress Florida Education Institute Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Meridian Institute	$50,000	1	0%
Sustainable Claremont	$50,000	1	26%
Food Research & Action Center	$41,500	1	0%
Catchafire Foundation	$37,800	1	2%
Louisiana Recycling Coalition	$30,000	1	n/a
Leadership in Heels Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Keep America Beautiful Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Jacksonville Community Action Committee Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
American Logistics Aid Network	$25,000	1	5%
Society of Plastics Engineers Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp	$25,000	1	20%
Preeclampsia Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$15,700	1	0%
City of Lancaster	$15,000	1	n/a
Church of Faith Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Destiny Center of Desoto County	$10,000	1	11%
Clark County Museum	$10,000	1	n/a
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City	$10,000	1	0%
Samaritan's Feet International	$8,500	1	0%
Christs Gift Academies	$7,000	1	2%
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Bombers Premier 2012- Doolin	$6,000	1	n/a

Telescope Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 93.

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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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNY74.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Telescope Fund

How much does Telescope Fund give?: Telescope Fund reported 35 grants totaling $10,306,669 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 74 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Telescope Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Civil Rights (21%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Telescope Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: One Arizona ($4.2M), Florida Rising Together Inc ($3.0M), Alliance for Youth Organizing ($2.3M).
Does Telescope Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Telescope Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
Where is Telescope Fund based?: Telescope Fund is based in DC.