TELESCOPE FUND

EIN 862577635 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

← All sponsors
DAF assets
$32.35M
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$37.10M
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$69.37M
received into DAFs
Payout rate
114.7%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
3
funds held at year end
Average account
$10.8M
assets per fund

At 114.7%, this sponsor granted more than its entire year-end DAF balance — money arriving and leaving within the same year rather than accumulating.

DAF assets by year

$85K
FY2022
$32.4M
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$29.3M
FY2022
$37.1M
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 132 grant lines totalling $64.9M across 2019–2024 — $491K per line.

$795K of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 1% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
One ArizonaEIN 371782220 AZ$4.2M
New Florida Majority Education Fund IncEIN 453956785 FL$3.0M
Tides CenterEIN 943213100 CA$2.5M
Alliance for Youth OrganizingEIN 462465621 DC$2.2M
Ohio Organizing CollaborativeEIN 261601472 OH$2.1M
Texas Freedom Network Education FundEIN 742788317 TX$2.1M
Pennsylvania VoiceEIN 811141448 PA$2.0M
ProgeorgiaEIN 461064042 GA$2.0M
NEO PhilanthropyEIN 133191113 NY$1.9M
Alabama ForwardEIN 853077637 AL$1.8M
Center For Civic PolicyEIN 010869701 NM$1.6M
Imagine North Carolina FirstEIN 464006055 NC$1.4M
Progress Michigan EducationEIN 843520391 MI$1.4M
New Georgia ProjectEIN 821348307 GA$1.2M
IsaiahEIN 411957358 MN$1.2M

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.