· Private foundation
Telly Foundation Ltd
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND - WIGDALE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $102,604 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $51,988 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $4,500 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $1,000 |
| CAMP CHIPPEWA FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
95 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 87 since wound down; 3 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +54%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +21%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WI ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $18k
- CSColumbia St Mary's Hospital Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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,…
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.
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…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
To align the regional fresh water research community and water-related industries to establish the milwaukee 7 region as the global capital for fresh water research and education, through the advancement of scientific collaboration on…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 130 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Telly Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telly Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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