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Telford Foundation Inc

To operate exclusively for the benefit of certain designated organizations, all of which are publicly supported organizations.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$585k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$11MEducation$2.8MReligion$2.8MHuman Services$1.9MInternational$1.0MArts & Culture$948k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $919k
$117,048
Median grant
5
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NCH HEALTH CARE SYSTEM$585,239
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION RICHMOND INC$333,333
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RICHMOND$234,096
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY$234,096
WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL$220,836
TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC$117,048
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$117,048
YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC$117,048
GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$117,048
DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$117,048
HAZARD COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE$117,048
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $195k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $186k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $120k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $117k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $114k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $73k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $73k → 16%TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA INC: $70k → 16%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $195k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $186k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $120k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $117k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $114k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $73k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $73k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN OF NAPLES INC: $70k → 10%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$20M
$0

Still filing today

58%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation Richmond Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +177% · 75% of their budget
  • Washington and Lee University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +15%
  • GH
    GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $948k · revenue +130% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    Baptist Health Richmond Inc

    To provide quality health care by a team of highly-skilled physicians & staff through nurturing, personalized services.

    —
    2
    University of Florida Health Corporation

    UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

    —
    3
    Hmh Hospitals Corporation

    The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

    Health
    4
    Holy Cross Hospital Inc

    We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

    Health
    5
    Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

    The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

    Health
    6
    Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

    Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

    Health
    7
    University Hospital & Clinics Inc

    The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

    Health
    8
    Cumberland Medical Center

    Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

    Health
    9
    Bridgeport Hospital

    To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

    Health
    10
    Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

    Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

    Health
    11
    Bridgton Hospital

    To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

    Health
    12
    Baptist Health System Inc

    To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nch Healthcare System Inc; the most unlike its peers is Telford Community Center Ymca. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

    3
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/8
    Grantees still filing
    7/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $2,642,663 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYTHE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RICHMOND: $1,895,545 · OtherTHE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RIC…WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL: $1,034,991 · OtherWORLD VISION INTERNATIONALJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $947,773 · OtherJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLL…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $4,738,861 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $947,773 · HealthDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CE…Baptist Health Foundation Richmond Inc: $2,496,925 · Human ServicesBaptist Health Foundatio…YOUTH HAVEN INC: $947,773 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN INCTELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA: $947,773 · Human ServicesTELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER…Washington and Lee University: $1,895,545 · EducationWashington…GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $947,773 · Arts & CultureInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $947,773 · Religion
    Other$6,520,972Health$5,686,634Human Services$4,392,471Education$1,895,545Arts & Culture$947,773Religion$947,773

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $4,738,861 over 8y, 69% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Richmond Inc: $2,496,925 over 8y, 75% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,895,545 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $947,773 over 8y, 42% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $947,773 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $947,773 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $947,773 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA: $947,773 over 8y, 13% 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 NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
    • Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Richmond Inc ↗
    • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
    • Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
    • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
    • Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
    • Who funds TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Telford Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telford Foundation Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
    • David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc: 1% of income from government
    • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Telford Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Telford Foundation Inc 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 12 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.

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