Applicants are invited to apply for the Telligen Community Initiative.
Donor Name: Telligen Community Initiative (TCI)
State: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/03/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) is the charitable foundation of Telligen, Inc., a private, nonprofit healthcare intelligence company. Since its inception in 2005, TCI has provided financial grants to support organizations and projects that strive to improve the health of communities Telligen serves.
TCI funding focuses on improving the health of communities within the context of specific funding priority areas. These priority areas were identified to define TCI’s community responsive grant programming, or more specifically, to produce more defined themes within the priority areas and to enhance the portability and replication potential of similarly themed projects across Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma communities. This can take multiple forms:
- They continue to believe in multiple funding mechanisms that try to meet applicants where they are in their work and evolution. This could encompass multiple themes or forms of support.
- First-dollar, programmatic or seed funding to nonprofit organizations or governmental entities is a powerful contribution TCI can make to positively impact health status. This funding can also be positioned to provide support for critical work of an organization in strong alignment with the funding priorities.
- Expansion or spread of already impactful and successful approaches you are doing to other populations or geography.
- This funding could also be evaluated by a potential applicant to support meaningful capacity building of an organization to better deliver its work or mission that strongly aligns with TCI funding priorities.
Principles
TCI strives to advance a framework that brings together health care delivery systems, public health agencies. community organizations across sectors, and community members to improve health. They seek to be a foundation that works to create and sustain collaborations where health responsibility is shared, more equitable and accountable by all. TCI philanthropy seeks to provide catalytic funding to those that share this belief and can spread its adoption. The following represents guiding principles for the approach to philanthropic support:
- Every person, especially the most vulnerable members of the communities—deserves health access and services.
- Many factors shape health and health outcomes (social drivers of health), putting a premium on prevention and integration of health with other community stakeholders and sectors.
- Active and intentional collaboration with others that share common ground, views and beliefs moves each organization toward its respective goals and all of us toward the collective goals. When possible, they would like to support regional health efforts that reach multi-county or statewide audiences. However, they also understand that the needs of some projects require intensity that focuses on smaller catchment areas (census tracts or neighborhoods) to achieve desired impacts.
Funding Information
Proposals can seek support of up to $150,000.
Grant Period
2 years
Eligibility Criteria
- To request a grant, your organization must be a recognized as a federally tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) charitable organization, an accredited school, or a public/governmental agency located in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa or Oklahoma.
- Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.
For more information, visit TCI.
