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Telos Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 23
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$3.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Telos Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionHealthCrime & LegalAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$168k26%
FY202321$169k29%
FY202222$148k36%
FY202123$176k39%
FY202016$103k69%
FY201922$158k73%
FY201813$108kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$435kArts & Culture$157kHealth$75kCrime & Legal$46kAnimals$30kPhilanthropy$29kEducation$27kCivil Rights$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Highlands Presbyterian Church$271,9007n/a
Third Millennium Ministries Inc$100,00050%
Magnolia Speech School$50,33050%
The Human Trafficking Institute$45,00031%
Mississippi Children's Museum$30,12520%
USA Ibc Foundation$30,000122%
GAIT Counseling Network INC$20,00029%
African Bible Colleges Inc$18,30420%
Delta Waterfowl Foundation$15,00020%
Governor's Mansion Foundation$10,00013%
Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($370k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Telos Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThird Millennium Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMagnolia Speech School: $50,330 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Human Trafficking Institute: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMississippi Children's Museum: $30,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUSA Ibc Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGAIT Counseling Network INC: $20,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetAfrican Bible Colleges Inc: $18,304 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGovernor's Mansion Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMississippi Center for Public Policy: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMission First Inc: $9,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMission Mississippi: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBelhaven University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStewpot Community Services Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Mississippi Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Children's Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Food Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $960 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetReformed Theological Seminary: $749 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Jackson Ms Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Mississippi: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLefleur East Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAll Things New Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFilter of Hope Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ergon Foundation IncMS34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Walker Foundation · James W Hood Family Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Make a Difference Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

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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How do I get to Telos Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Telos Foundation Inc 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 Telos Foundation Inc

How much does Telos Foundation Inc give?
Telos Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $168,164 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Telos Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (7%).
Who are Telos Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Highlands Presbyterian Church ($272k), Third Millennium Ministries Inc ($100k), Magnolia Speech School ($50k).
Does Telos Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Telos Foundation Inc 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 Telos Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ergon Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Feild Co-Operative Association.
Where is Telos Foundation Inc based?
Telos Foundation Inc is based in MS.

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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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