Funding Priorities
Our Goal
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’s overall goal is to ensure opportunities for health are available and accessible to everyone. The foundation provides funding to health-related projects and organizations in Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma and Colorado.
Our Vision
To empower organizations and citizens to improve their individual and overall community health.
Our Mission
To initiate and support innovative and forward-looking health-related projects aimed at improving physical and social well-being and educational attainment.
Social Drivers of Health – Strengthening Families and Communities
Continuing our successful transition of 2025 to direct all funding to social drivers of health and having all TCI funding resourcing more upstream issues that impact health status, TCI supports efforts to decrease health disparities and improve equity. We have elected to significantly focus our social determinants of health-funding interests around emphasizing the integration of childhood, family and community health in new ways for our foundation again in 2026 and continue on this learning journey of what works best in our four states of focus. Our philanthropic support will revolve around advancing healthy birth outcomes and efforts to build parenting resilience and avoidance of Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Our Request for Proposals in this priority funding area will identify more specificity on approaches within this priority area that TCI would enjoy supporting.
Health Workforce Development
TCI strives to maintain and advance our current health workforce, while also providing critical resources to support the next generation of health workers of all kinds. We are proud of our funding commitments over the past decade in creative solutions to advance health workforce needs.
While we have active projects funded at this time, we are not currently soliciting new projects in this historical funding priority of TCI in 2026.
Funding Guidelines / Request for Proposals
To request a grant, your organization must be 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 Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, or Oklahoma. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department or state governmental agency.
To learn more and to receive specific guidance on completing a 2026 grant request, check out our 2026 Request for Proposals documents. This drives our new two-step application process. The initial pre-application is a much more abbreviated application that will have a quicker review/response time. From there, we intend to invite forward a subset of the overall application pool to a smaller finalist application round. Only those pre-applications invited to this second, invitational step will be expected to complete a finalist proposal. The pre-applications for all four TCI states will be due by September 3, 2026. The Strengenthing Families and Communities RFP outlines this process and how to apply in our grant portal.
2026 Strengthening Families and Communities RFP
Pre-applications from Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, and Oklahoma will all be due to TCI by September 3, 2026.
