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TELESCOPE FUND

EIN 86-2577635 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$5,536,429
Expenses 2024
$10,788,449

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
1050 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 500

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LESLIE PAYNE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN MANGAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARLA BLOW

    TREASURER (THROUGH 7/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DORI KREIGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREW SCHULZ

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,536,429
    Expenses
    $10,788,449
    Contributions
    $4,000,000
    Grants paid
    $10,306,669
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $69,446,551
    Expenses
    $37,206,092
    Contributions
    $67,939,363
    Grants paid
    $35,590,849
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,475,057
    Expenses
    $30,044,973
    Contributions
    $30,327,721
    Grants paid
    $29,300,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.