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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Highlands Presbyterian Church | $50,000 |
| Mississipi Children's Museum | $30,000 |
| Third Millennium Ministries | $20,000 |
| Human Trafficking Institute | $15,000 |
| CRU | $11,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $10,000 |
| MWFP Foundation | $6,500 |
| RUF | $5,200 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $2,400 |
| Friends of Children's Hosiptal | $1,500 |
| First Presbyterian Day School | $1,500 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Mission First | $850 |
| Compassion Intl | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TMTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +49%
- MSMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +86%
- THTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- UIUSA IBC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +394%
- TCThe Campaign For Children'sone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ACABC Collegesone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Center for Public Policy and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 69 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
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 THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds USA IBC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAIT Counseling Network INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S MANSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Church Planting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds MISSION MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
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.
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
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 Telos Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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