Colorado · Private foundation
Twelve Twenty-One Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $149k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Twelve Twenty-One Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $139k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $139k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $144k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $127k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $95k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $97k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $117k | 3% |
| FY2017 | 53 | $351k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $71,500 | 8 | 0% |
| CMT Research Foundation Inc | $67,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Colorado Ballet | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association | $43,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Denver Jewish Day School | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Denver Art Museum | $36,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Camp Nicolet Foundation Inc | $35,500 | 8 | 13% |
| Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Domino Service Dogs | $20,300 | 8 | 8% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Twelve Twenty-One Fund 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Sending Support Foundation · Carson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · The Denver Foundation · Fox Valley United Way · JEWISHColorado · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About Twelve Twenty-One Fund
- How much does Twelve Twenty-One Fund give?
- Twelve Twenty-One Fund reported 34 grants totaling $148,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Twelve Twenty-One Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (17%), Health (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Twelve Twenty-One Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($72k), CMT Research Foundation Inc ($68k), Colorado Ballet ($53k).
- Does Twelve Twenty-One Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Twelve Twenty-One Fund 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 Twelve Twenty-One Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Sending Support Foundation.
- Where is Twelve Twenty-One Fund based?
- Twelve Twenty-One Fund is based in CO.
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