New Hampshire · Private foundation
Trefoil Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Trefoil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $24k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $16k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $25k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $25k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $25k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $13k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant House | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem | $15,450 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $14,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $12,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Diocese of Md | $8,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Episcopal Church at Yale | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| AIDS Response Seacoast | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trefoil Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: A Caring Community Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Trefoil Foundation
- How much does Trefoil Foundation give?
- Trefoil Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Trefoil Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), International (19%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Trefoil Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Covenant House ($23k), Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem ($15k), United States Fund for Unicef ($14k).
- Does Trefoil Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trefoil Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Trefoil Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A Caring Community Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Trefoil Foundation based?
- Trefoil Foundation is based in NH.
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