Illinois · Private foundation
Tellabs Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2020
- 44
- Grants FY2020
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Tellabs Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Dupage Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Tellabs Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 8
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 44% of the organizations Tellabs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 43 | $2.5M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $800k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $1.6M | 69% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
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, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Als Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $623,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Naperville Heritage Society | $530,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Dupage Children's Museum | $520,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Little Friends Inc | $520,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $510,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $506,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Aurora University | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Edward Foundation | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 81 grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($838k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tellabs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Dupage Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation · Dunham Fund · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Tellabs Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Tellabs Foundation 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.
About Tellabs Foundation
- How much does Tellabs Foundation give?
- Tellabs Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,570,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Tellabs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Health (27%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Tellabs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($1.0M), Project Als Inc ($750k), Bridge Communities Inc ($623k).
- Does Tellabs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tellabs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tellabs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Dupage Community Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
- Where is Tellabs Foundation based?
- Tellabs Foundation is based in IL.
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