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.

Twenty-Seven Foundation

Twenty-Seven Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$815k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.8MHousing & Shelter$3.7MScience & Tech$2.5MFood & Nutrition$1.9MInternational$1.3MAnimals$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$1.1MOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k16 grants · $445k
$50k–250k7 grants · $650k
$250k+4 grants · $1.7M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 41 repeat orgs$559k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$509k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+95%

Still filing today

78%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 College
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +50%
CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +14%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +89%

Funded once

RC
Recovery Community
one grant, 2022 · $90k
TF
THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF GREATER NEW YORK CITY INC
one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue -50%
IC
Isaiah Center for Justice
one grant, 2021 · $53k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

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:…

Animals

Americares Free Clinics Inc

To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.

Health

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

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.

Human Services

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals

Liberation Programs Inc

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.

Health

Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals

City of Hope National Medical Center

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

Health

Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc

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.…

Human Services

Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

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.

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City of Hope

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

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,316,083Education$5,922,000Housing & Shelter$1,950,000Food & Nutrition$1,530,000Human Services$1,315,000International$1,250,000Animals$1,005,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Twenty-Seven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twenty-Seven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home