Delaware · Private foundation
William & Karen Tell Foundation
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.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $450
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations William & Karen Tell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 87 | $96k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $95k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $77k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $109k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $296k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $297k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodhivastu Foundation for Enlightened Activity | $115,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Palm Beach Opera Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| New Dominion Chorale Inc | $52,250 | 6 | 14% |
| The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc | $50,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| All Saints Church | $41,000 | 6 | n/a |
| St Luke School | $33,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc | $33,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Drikung Meditation Center Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Katie Johnson Fellowship Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 53% |
Show all 185 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William & Karen Tell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 153 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Impactassetsinc · Global Impact · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About William & Karen Tell Foundation
- How much does William & Karen Tell Foundation give?
- William & Karen Tell Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $97,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William & Karen Tell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Religion (26%), Education (9%).
- Who are William & Karen Tell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bodhivastu Foundation for Enlightened Activity ($115k), Palm Beach Opera Inc ($100k), New Dominion Chorale Inc ($52k).
- Does William & Karen Tell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William & Karen Tell Foundation 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 William & Karen Tell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
- Where is William & Karen Tell Foundation based?
- William & Karen Tell Foundation is based in DE.
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