· Private foundation
Twenty-Seven 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $650k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tufts University | $815,000 |
| Yale University | $350,000 |
| Purdue University | $300,000 |
| California Institute of Technology | $255,000 |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $200,000 |
| Americares | $100,000 |
| Honor Flight | $100,000 |
| Weston Historical Society | $95,000 |
| Homes With Hope | $55,000 |
| 306 Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Animal Cancer Foundation | $50,000 |
| Pivot Ministries Inc | $40,000 |
| Recovery Community Development | $40,000 |
| Fall River Historical Society | $35,000 |
| Connecticut Food Share | $35,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +50%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +35%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +89%
Funded once
- RCRecovery Communityone grant, 2022 · $90k
- TFTHE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF GREATER NEW YORK CITY INCone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue -50%
- ICIsaiah Center for Justiceone grant, 2021 · $53k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Liberation programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, community outreach, and recovery services to help individuals and their families impacted by substance use and mental health conditions to foster hope and maintain wellness.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Wounded veterans relief fund (wvrf), founded in 2009, is a veteran-led 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. our mission is to provide urgent financial assistance and critical dental care to florida's eligible wounded and disabled veterans.…
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Seminary of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds PIVOT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Fall River Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY BLOSSOM BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds VINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TOOLBOX4LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY SEMINARY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF GREATER NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RPM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRAYS & OTHERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Twenty-Seven Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.