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Telos Group Inc

Telos Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,577,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,448,157). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2023
44
Funders on record
$5.6M
Grants received
$169k
Net assets
24/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%

Against its field

Telos Group Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,538 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,538 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($94k)2018 Revenue 147 ($1.6M) Expenses 123 ($1.5M) Net assets 165 ($156k)2020 Revenue 94 ($994k) Expenses 80 ($965k) Net assets 262 ($246k)2021 Revenue 124 ($1.3M) Expenses 80 ($970k) Net assets 623 ($586k)2022 Revenue 68 ($724k) Expenses 73 ($887k) Net assets 449 ($423k)2023 Revenue 214 ($2.3M) Expenses 208 ($2.5M) Net assets 179 ($169k)
201720182020202120222023
Revenue (214)Expenses (208)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 5% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of Telos Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,669 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$154k
17
$62k
18
$30k
20
$340k
21
$163k
22
$254k
23
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $151k → $1.1M.

19 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)48% 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 Telos Group Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

Telos Group Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

57% 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 Telos Group Inc.

26%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 34% · 2019 23% · 2020 33% · 2021 23% · 2022 33% · 2023 38%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

62% of Telos Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Telos Group Inc draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
VA
DE
AR
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

03Its place in the field

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 44 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 Telos Group 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 31%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Telos Group 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 Telos Group Inc?
Telos Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,577,031 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,448,157). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Telos Group Inc have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $5,577,031 in grants to Telos Group Inc, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Telos Group Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,448,157 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Telos Group Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 44funders 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