How much did Telos Foundation Inc grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of Telos Foundation Inc’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

christian

2019

abcmissionsministries

2020

christianministries

2021

ministries

2022

ministries

2023

magnolia

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

03FY2024 · 19 grants

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

$2,400

Median grant

States reached

$5.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

Highlands Presbyterian Church$50,000
Mississipi Children's Museum$30,000
Third Millennium Ministries$20,000
Human Trafficking Institute$15,000
CRU$11,800
Delta Waterfowl Foundation$10,000
Jackson Prep$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

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$859k · 25 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +17% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$859k

$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%

+17%

Still filing today

48%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthReligionAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

TM
Third Millennium Ministries
5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%
MS
Magnolia Speech School
5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +86%
TH
THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE
3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +74%

Funded once

UI
USA IBC FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +712%
TC
The Campaign For Children's
one grant, 2019 · $25k
AC
ABC Colleges
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

Methodist Foundation of Mississippi

The methodist foundation of ms resources the church for effective ministry & fruitful generosity.

Religion

Mississippi Methodist Hospital

Mississippi methodist rehabilitation center provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to help people recover abilities and quality of life after a stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological disease or…

Health

University of Southern Mississippi

The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.

Education

Missions Development International

Mdi mentors, consults and equips christian ministry leaders through leadership development, strategic planning, human resource management, family counseling and much more.

International

Christian Ministries International

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Millsaps College

Millsaps college is a private nonprofit liberal arts college based in jackson, ms; providing education and training services for students at the undergraduate and graduate level

Education

The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago

Moody exists to proclaim the gospel and equip people to be biblically grounded, practically trained, and to engage the world through gospel-centered living. In short, we prepare people for their purpose and calling!

Education

Trinity International University

Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.

Education

Harrison International Ministries

Sharing biblical principles

Religion

The Firs Bible & Missionary Conference

Christian camp and retreat facilities; community day camp and before/after school programs.

Religion

Louisiana Christian University

Operation of baptist college campus

Education

Mississippi State University Alumni

The msu alumni association activates and supports the bulldog family, encouraging alumni, students, and friends to grow a lifelong connection with mississippi state university and inspire their ongoing support toward each other and the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Mississippi and the most unlike its peers is Belhaven University. 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 43 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

13%

1,587/12,470

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

26 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)

23/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$725,998Religion$106,240Health$71,080Crime & Legal$45,000Arts & Culture$30,125Human Services$30,000Education$24,453

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.

Ergon Foundation IncMS28.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Feild Co-Operative Association · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Chattanooga Christian Community · Regions Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Servant 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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: USA IBC FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 640905927 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 USA IBC 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% 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.

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Find your warmest path to Telos Foundation Inc 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.

Telos Foundation Inc

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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Telos Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

Telos Foundation Inc

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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Telos Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph