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Telligen Community Initiative

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
72%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$48,710
Largest grant, FY2025
$141,873
Organizations funded a year
29 to 46
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 72% of the organizations Telligen Community Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving43$2.2M70%
FY202429$2.0M72%
FY202333$2.0M88%
FY202246$2.2M76%
FY202146$2.1M83%
FY202046$2.0M87%
FY201941$1.8M93%
FY201840$1.8M100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$8.5MHuman Services$2.1MEducation$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEmployment$962kCrime & Legal$936kHousing & Shelter$588kFood & Nutrition$536kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 228 grantees
All grantees of Telligen Community Initiative by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shawnee Health Service & Devel Corp$300,00030%
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc$175,00030%
Gyedi Project$149,5622n/a
The University of Tulsa$147,98120%
Colorado Health Institute$145,00031%
Imanis Village Inc$129,500241%
Iowa Black Doula Collective$126,400238%
New Workforce Directions Inc$125,00022%
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc$125,00020%
Variety Care Inc$125,00020%
Erie Neighborhood House$125,00021%
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group$124,00424%
Oklahoma Christian University$123,77520%
Project Angel Heart$110,00031%
Dental Connections Inc$110,00022%
Unity Healthcare$107,89820%
Arapahoe Community College Foundation Inc$100,00022%
Youth and Family Resource Center Inc$100,00025%
Iowa Primary Care Association Inc$100,00021%
Oklahoma Dental Foundation$100,00024%
Creoks Mental Health Services$100,00020%
Metropolitan Tenants Organization$100,00029%
Centennial Mental Health Center Inc$100,00020%
Child Advocates - Denver Casa$100,00024%
Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking$100,00025%
Crossover Health Services Inc$99,9971n/a
Omni Institute$99,98722%
Elyssas Mission NFP$99,92527%
Children's Medical Research Inc$99,82912%
Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative$99,56824%
Southwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center$96,352210%
The Night Ministry$95,00020%
The Archer Group$93,95326%
Tulsa Area United Way$90,0001n/a
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines$88,49011%
Alliancechicago$80,64021%
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois$75,6001n/a
Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc$75,00011%
Chicago Volunteer Doulas Inc$75,000112%
Colorado Community College System Foundation$75,00021%
Domestic Violence Intervention Services$75,00011%
Hunger Free Colorado$75,00022%
Mama Bird Doula Services$75,0001n/a
Vision to Learn$75,00010%
La Cocina$75,00015%
Healthteamworks$75,00013%
Family Inc$75,00013%
Thriving Families$75,00012%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$75,00010%
NDoula Community Alliance Incorporated$75,000156%
Little Heroes League$75,0001n/a
Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Oklahoma Inc$75,00014%
Options for Youth$75,00015%
Mercer County Health Dept$75,0001n/a
VNA Health Care$75,00010%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill$75,00010%
Center for African American Health$75,00021%
Iowa Caregivers$75,000127%
Maria Droste Services of Colorado Inc$74,93512%
Kreider Services Inc$74,61410%
Indian Hills Community College$74,017130%
The Common Good Inc$73,9751n/a
Envision You$69,87517%
Skills for Chicago$53,15011%
Peak Vista Community Health Centers$51,02010%
Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center$50,0001n/a
Youth and Family Counseling$50,00013%
Educational and Scientific Foundation of the Illinois State Medical Society$50,000148%
Kingfisher Community Collaborative$50,0001n/a
Building Direction for Families Inc$50,0001n/a
INTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Iowa Legal Aid$50,00010%
Centerstone of Illinois Inc$50,00010%
Norman Regional Health Foundation$50,00014%
On With Life Inc$50,00010%
Heartline Inc$50,00013%
United Community Action Program Inc$50,00010%
Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation$50,0001n/a
Alternatives for the Older Adult Inc$50,00011%
Feeding Illinois$50,00016%
Iowa Donor Network$50,00010%
Community Food Share Inc$50,00010%
Family & Childrens Services Inc$50,00010%
Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United$50,00010%
Sisters Working It Out$50,000110%
Denver Children's Advocacy Center$50,00012%
Resonance Center for Women Inc$50,0001n/a
Please Pass the Love$50,000114%
Iowa Food Bank Association$50,00014%
Illinois Primary Health Care Association$50,00011%
Elderbridge Agency on Aging$50,00011%
Iowa Chronic Care Consortium$50,00018%
Micah House Corporation$50,00011%
Childserve Inc$50,00011%
Sinai Health System$50,00010%
Chicago Horticultural Society$50,00010%
Project Iowa$50,00019%
Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition$50,000115%
Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc$50,00010%
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association$50,0001n/a
Iowa State University Foundation$50,00010%
Opportunities Inc$50,00016%
United Ways of Iowa$50,00013%
SCKIC Inc$50,0001n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$50,0001n/a
Community Health Connection Inc$50,00010%
Life Connections Peer Recovery Serv$50,000125%
Trinity Health Foundation$50,00012%
La Puente Home Inc$50,00011%
Legal Council for Health Justice$50,00011%
National Alliance on Mental Illness-Iowa Inc$50,00019%
The Leverage Network Inc$50,00017%
Equal Hope$50,00011%
Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation$50,00011%
Home Front Military Network$50,00026%
Brave Space Alliance$50,00012%
YWCA Tulsa Inc$50,00011%
The Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health$50,00010%
Communities in Schools of Chicago$50,00012%
Mercy College of Health Sciences$50,00010%
Colorado Health Network Inc$50,0001n/a
Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma$50,00010%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc$50,00010%
Women Employed$50,00012%
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center$50,00014%
Kids in Need of Dentistry$50,00013%
Doctors Care$50,00012%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc$50,00012%
Food Bank of the Rockies$50,00010%
Boulder Food Rescue$50,00012%
Presence Care Transformation Corporation$50,0001n/a
Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc$50,0001n/a
Comanche County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$50,00019%
Infinity Health$50,00010%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic$50,00015%
Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc$50,00013%
Ignite$50,00011%
Pathways to a Healthy Stephens County Inc$50,0001n/a
Health Alliance for the Uninsured$50,00011%
Chains Interrupted Inc$50,000119%
Rush Copley Foundation$49,98213%
Colorado Center for the Advancement of Patient Safety$49,91713%
McKendree University$49,84010%
Howard Brown Health Center$49,82810%
Friends of Nwc High School Foundati Cheatham$49,772128%
Center for Speech and Language Disorders$49,75021%
Tru Community Care$49,50210%
Immunize Colorado$49,4731n/a
Eastern Plains Healthcare Consortium$49,43517%
Brain Injury Association of Colorado$49,40012%
A New Leaf Inc$48,90011%
Colorado Institute of Family Medicine$48,000135%
Early Childhood Partnership of Adams Cou$47,88112%
Iowa Public Health Association Foundation$47,585134%
University of Northern Iowa Foundation$47,56710%
Longmont United Hospital$46,25010%
The Civic Canopy$45,25013%
City Care Inc$45,00011%
Oklahoma City Community College Foundati$44,00016%
Saint Anthony Hospital$43,05210%
Sinnissippi Centers Inc$41,83410%
Illinois Association of Free & Charitable Clinics$41,500123%
City Colleges of Chicago$40,0001n/a
Foundation for a Healthy Oklahoma$39,92015%
Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa$39,80011%
Oklahoma City University$37,00010%
Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists$35,000117%
Colorado School Medicaid Consortium$35,00013%
Iowa City Hospice Inc$34,60910%
Repro TLC$30,00018%
Proteus Inc$30,00010%
Hopehouse Supportive & Transitional Living Inc$30,00012%
Youth Crossroads Inc$30,00011%
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa$29,01214%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc$28,81011%
Syrian Community Network$26,00012%
Colo Association for School-Based Health Care$25,00013%
Team Up$25,00011%
Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association$25,00010%
Counseling and Family Services Inc Dba Familycore$25,00010%
Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System$25,00010%
Dentists Donating Smiles to Oklahomans INC$25,0001n/a
Become Inc$25,0001n/a
Colorado Community Health Network Inc$25,00011%
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc$25,00010%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center$25,00010%
Promise Healthcare Nfp$25,0001n/a
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc$25,00010%
Grand County Rural Health Network Inc$25,00016%
Reach Out and Read Colorado$25,00011%
Colorado Visiting Nurse Association$25,00010%
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center$25,00011%
Foster Source$25,00012%
Mental Health America of Colorado$25,00012%
Colorado Rural Health Center$25,00011%
Center for Health Progress$25,00014%
Ellipsis Inc$25,00010%
Southeast Behavioral Health Group$25,00010%
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc$25,00010%
Iowa Aces 360$25,00016%
University of Chicago$25,00010%
Red Rocks Community College Foundation$24,91912%
Better Tomorrow$24,7331n/a
Potts Family Foundation Inc$24,5001n/a
Jewels Academy$24,0003n/a
Youthbuild McLean County$21,30011%
Summitwest Care Inc$20,00010%
Iowa Medical Society Foundation$20,000119%
Youth Outreach Services Inc$20,00010%
Dupage Pads Inc$20,00010%
Tulsa Casa Inc$20,00013%
Family Health Foundation of Illinois Inc$17,500172%
Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences$16,72510%
Volunteer Services of Iroquois Coun$16,58012%
Renaissance Social Services Inc$16,05010%
Friends of Iowa Casa & Icfcrb$15,00017%
Clarke County Public Hospital$13,0001n/a
Good Shepherd Ministries of Oklahoma Inc$12,50011%
Colorado Safety Net Collaborative$10,0001n/a
Great Outdoors Foundation$10,00010%
Status Code 4 Inc$10,000115%
Oklahoma State Park Foundation Inc$6,5001n/a
Clinica Colorado$6,18310%
Wellspring Community$2,50010%
Indianola Hope Foundation$2,5001n/a
Marshalltown Young Men's Christian Association-Ywca$2,50010%
Hospice of Washington County Inc$2,50010%
Des Moines Refugee Support$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Telligen Community Initiative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShawnee Health Service & Devel Corp: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $147,981 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Health Institute: $145,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetImanis Village Inc: $129,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetIowa Black Doula Collective: $126,400 over 2y, 38% of budgetNew Workforce Directions Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLegal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVariety Care Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErie Neighborhood House: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHealth and Medicine Policy Research Group: $124,004 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOklahoma Christian University: $123,775 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Angel Heart: $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDental Connections Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUnity Healthcare: $107,898 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArapahoe Community College Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYouth and Family Resource Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetIowa Primary Care Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOklahoma Dental Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCreoks Mental Health Services: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Tenants Organization: $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCentennial Mental Health Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChild Advocates - Denver Casa: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLaboratory to Combat Human Trafficking: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetOmni Institute: $99,987 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $99,925 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetChildren's Medical Research Inc: $99,829 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetColorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative: $99,568 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSouthwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center: $96,352 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $95,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Archer Group: $93,953 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines: $88,490 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlliancechicago: $80,640 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGreater Sioux Community Health Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetColorado Community College System Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDomestic Violence Intervention Services: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHunger Free Colorado: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVision to Learn: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLa Cocina: $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHealthteamworks: $75,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFamily Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThriving Families: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNDoula Community Alliance Incorporated: $75,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetExchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Oklahoma Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOptions for Youth: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVNA Health Care: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 196.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Colorado Health FoundationCO61.5× affinity44 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund

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 Telligen Community Initiative

How much does Telligen Community Initiative give?
Telligen Community Initiative reported 43 grants totaling $2,175,916 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Telligen Community Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (12%), Education (9%).
Who are Telligen Community Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shawnee Health Service & Devel Corp ($300k), Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc ($175k), Gyedi Project ($150k).
Does Telligen Community Initiative fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Telligen Community Initiative 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 Telligen Community Initiative?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Colorado Health Foundation, Caring for Colorado Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Telligen Community Initiative based?
Telligen Community Initiative is based in IA.

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 314 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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