New York · Nonprofit
TED FOUNDATION INC
TED FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,484,648 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($49,304,001). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
TED FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 4528696% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $14k → $26M.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TED FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TED FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TED FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 44% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of TED FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of TED FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $66M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Everybody Wins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 105 organizations that share your funders
- The Callagy Christian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like TED FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TED FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC?
- TED FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,484,648 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($49,304,001). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TED FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $140,484,648 in grants to TED FOUNDATION INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TED FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $49,304,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TED FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 55funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing