How much did Telly Foundation Ltd grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Telly Foundation Ltd’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

indian rivernorth shoreriver shoresvero beachjohn'spolicynature

2019

indian riverjohn'sriver shoresvero beachwaypolicylibrary

2020

indian riververo beachjohn'srescuepolicyriver shoresgreater milwaukee

2021

indian riververo beachwaygreater milwaukeejohn'syouthlibrary

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $24k
$10k–50k1 grant · $27k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$198k

Total assets

Largest grants

Medical College of Wisconsin$26,988
Boys & Girls Glub of Greater Milwaukee$7,000
St Augustine Preparatory Academy$5,000
Children's Hospital Wisconsin Foundation$4,500
Milwaukee Art Museum$3,000
St Christopher's Church$2,000
Milwaukee College Preparatory School$1,000
United Performing Arts Fund$1,000
Camp Chippewa Foundation$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 103 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

103 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103

Total granted

$1.7M

$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+16%

Still filing today

38%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

MC
Medical College of Wisconsin
4× · 2017–2024 · $333k · revenue +22%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee
3× · 2017–2021 · $151k · revenue +21%
MA
Milwaukee Art Museum
8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +8%

Funded once

SC
St Christopher's Episcopal Church
one grant, 2020 · $50k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WI ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $25k
SC
ST CHRISTOPHER'S
one grant, 2017 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing funding for scholarships and grants and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

Westconsin Credit Union

To give members, communities, and one another the inspiration, resources, and support to achieve financial wellness.

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The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter

The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education

The University School of Milwaukee

University school of milwaukee provides an exceptional pk-12 independent school education in a supportive, inclusive community built on the foundation of our common trust. by igniting a passion for learning, leadership, and service, the…

Education

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (the "university") is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level for men and women in the disciplines of engineering, business, mathematics,…

Education

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Mount Mercy University

Provide undergraduate and graduate higher education for approximately 1,400 students.

Education

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education

Beloit College

Beloit college is a residential, independent, national liberal arts college and wisconsin's oldest continuous institution of higher learning. the college is a national leader in delivering a rigorous, time-tested liberal arts experience…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alverno College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

1,040/11,473

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/48

Grantees still filing

30/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$901,350Education$415,498Health$218,250Youth Development$174,500Arts & Culture$112,000Philanthropy$100,800Human Services$25,100

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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI44.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc

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 organisation Telly Foundation Ltd 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.

2024

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Charles E Kubly Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200375310 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Charles E Kubly Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Telly Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Telly Foundation Ltd through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Telly Foundation Ltd

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Telly Foundation Ltd?

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Telly Foundation Ltd

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Telly Foundation Ltd?

More from the funding graph