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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% 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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
First Presbyterian Day School$1,500
Friends of Children's Hosiptal$1,500
STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
Mission First$850
Compassion Intl$614
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Study with Friends: $3k → 6%ABC Colleges: $10k → 10%Human Trafficking Institute: $15k → 14%Highview EPC: $10k → 5%ECU FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 20%The Campaign For Children's: $25k → 10%Magnolia Tribune: $5k → 11%Delta Waterfowl Foundation: $10k → 10%THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $15k → 6%Human Trafficking Institute: $15k → 14%Jackson Prep: $10k → 10%Magnolia Speech School: $10k → 11%DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%Jackson Prep: $10k → 10%The Nature Conservancy: $5k → 11%Magnolia Speech School: $10k → 23%Highlands Presbyterian Church: $56k → 11%Magnolia Speech School: $10k → 23%Third Millennium Ministries: $20k → 11%HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $51k → 11%Magnolia Speech School: $10k → 23%Third Millennium Ministries: $20k → 11%Highlands Presbyterian Church: $50k → 11%Magnolia Speech School: $10k → 23%Third Millennium Ministries: $20k → 11%Highlands Presbyterian Church: $50k → 11%Reformed Theological: $4k → 23%Third Millennium Ministries: $20k → 11%Highlands Presbyterian Church: $50k → 11%Third Millennium Ministries: $20k → 11%Highlands Presbyterian Church: $10k → 11%Mission First: $5k → 23%HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%ABC Missions: $4k → 23%Mississipi Children's Museum: $30k → 23%Mississipi Children's Museum: $20k → 23%Mississippi Childrens Museum: $15k → 23%Mississipi Children's Museum: $15k → 23%Mississipi Children's Museum: $15k → 23%Mississipi Children's Museum: $15k → 23%Mississippi Childrens Museum: $15k → 23%MS Center for Public Policy: $10k → 23%RUF: $5k → 23%Belhaven University: $5k → 23%RUF: $4k → 23%RUF: $4k → 23%RUF: $4k → 23%AMANDA BELL: $5k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$859k · 25 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

25
38

Total granted

$859k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

48%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +49%
  • MS
    MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +86%
  • TH
    THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • UI
    USA IBC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +394%
  • TC
    The Campaign For Children's
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • AC
    ABC Colleges
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
5
Evangel University

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.

Education
6
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary

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.

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7
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

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…

Education
8
LeTourneau University

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,…

Education
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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10
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
11
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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12
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Center for Public Policy; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $271,900 · OtherHIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMississipi Children's Museum: $95,000 · OtherMississipi Children's MuseumCRU: $75,000 · OtherCRUMWFP Foundation: $28,100 · OtherThe Campaign For Children's: $25,000 · Other+46 more: $207,678 · Other+46 moreTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · ReligionTHIRD MILLE…Florida Church Planting Network Inc: $6,000 · ReligionFlorida Chu…+1 more: $960 · ReligionMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $50,330 · HealthGAIT Counseling Network INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $3,350 · HealthTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Crime & LegalAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $18,304 · EducationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10,000 · EducationBelhaven University: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,149 · EducationMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $30,125 · Arts & CultureUSA IBC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human Services
Other$702,678Religion$106,960Health$73,680Crime & Legal$45,000Education$44,453Arts & Culture$30,125Human Services$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 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 MISSION MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds Belhaven University ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI 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.

Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Feild Co-Operative As…Van Devender Family F…Selby and Richard McR…The Pruet FoundationWalker FoundationJames W Hood Family F…Sam E & Burnice C Wit…Century Club Charitie…Make a Difference Fou…Chattanooga Christian…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Telos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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