· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGY CENTER | $141,873 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES - FISCAL AGENT FOR CENTRAL IOWA | $100,000 |
| CROSSOVER HEALTH SERVICES | $99,997 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $99,829 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $90,000 |
| IMANI'S VILLAGE INC | $89,500 |
| PEACEFUL FAMILY OKLAHOMA | $75,000 |
| LITTLE HEROES LEAGUE | $75,000 |
| OPTIONS FOR YOUTH | $75,000 |
| SHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $75,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $75,000 |
| PARENT PROMISE | $75,000 |
| ONE HOPE UNITED | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT - TULSA COUNTY | $75,000 |
| KREIDER SERVICES INC | $74,614 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Telligen Community Initiative’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +5%
COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +16%
The University of Tulsa2× · 2023–2024 · $148k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TCTELLIGEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE SYNERGYone grant, 2024 · $133k
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $90k
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINESone grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Our mission is to provide universal access to excellent primary health care for patients of all ages, stages of life, and backgrounds.
To maintain a high quality patient care delivery system that provides access to comprehensive health care services, regardless of ability to pay. it is the desire of chccw to treat all patients with the dignity and respect they deserve…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Health Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
224 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 224 of the 314 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHAWNEE HEALTH SERVICE & DEVEL CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GYEDI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IMANIS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Variety Care Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES - DENVER CASA ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CREOKS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Iowa Primary Care Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OMNI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER GROUP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Telligen Community Initiative funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hunger Free Oklahoma Inc — 100% of income from government
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation — 83% of income from government
- United Community Action Program Inc — 62% of income from government
- Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc — 37% of income from government
- Community Health Connection Inc — 18% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Variety Care Inc — 9% of income from government
- Opportunities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
- Good Shepherd Community Clinicinc — 5% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Tulsa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family & Childrens Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.