Maryland · Nonprofit
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $142,406 to it, the largest being THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ($142,406). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-3202601
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $106M
What Telecommunications Development Fund Inc does
Mission
The telecommunications act of 1996 (the act), enacted on february 8, 1996, created a body corporate to be known as the telecommuncations development fund, tdf. The conference report which accompanied the act provided that tdf will be administered as a not for profit organization. On march 30, 1998, tdf was incorporated in the district of columbia as a civic organization within the meaning of section 501 (c)(4) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. The purpose of the fund is: (a) to promote access to capital for small businesses in order to enhance competition in the telecommunications industry; (b) to stimulate new technology development, and to promote employment and training; (c) to support universal service and promote delivery of telecommunications services to underserved rural and urban areas; and (d) to receive contributions or donations to the fund and to reinvest any repayment of, or other payment with respect to, loan, equity, or other extensions of credit made fro
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$883,411 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $883,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $100M to $116M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
James Pastoriza
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Organizations like TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- TD Fund III LP · partnership
- Tdf Ventures IV LP · partnership
- Tdf Ventures Fund V LP · partnership
- Lookout Ventures I LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC?
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $142,406 to it, the largest being THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ($142,406). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $142,406 in grants to TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC?
- THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $142,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing