Connecticut · 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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $815,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Twenty-Seven Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 27 | $2.8M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $3.1M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $2.6M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $2.6M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $2.6M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $2.5M | 16% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Tufts College | $3,365,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $2,550,000 | 9 | n/a |
| California Institute of Technology | $2,477,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $1,700,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $1,480,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $1,250,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $1,102,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Wildlife in Crisis Inc | $790,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Recovery Community Development Inc | $770,000 | 6 | 41% |
| Honor Flight Inc | $700,000 | 7 | 5% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Twenty-Seven Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Twenty-Seven Foundation
- How much does Twenty-Seven Foundation give?
- Twenty-Seven Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $2,815,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Twenty-Seven Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Science & Tech (10%).
- Who are Twenty-Seven Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Tufts College ($3.4M), Trustees of Purdue University ($2.5M), California Institute of Technology ($2.5M).
- Does Twenty-Seven Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Twenty-Seven 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 Twenty-Seven Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Mutual of America Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Twenty-Seven Foundation based?
- Twenty-Seven Foundation is based in CT.
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