California · Private foundation
Twitter Foundation
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.
- $95k
- Granted FY2022
- 19
- Grants FY2022
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 4
- Total assets, FY2022
- $60k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 74% of the organizations Twitter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 19 | $95k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $155k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Uprose Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Tipping Point Community | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Outright International | $12,050 | 2 | 0% |
| The Arc San Francisco | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gubbio Project Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Asian Mental Health Collective Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Girls Code Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sunshine Kids Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Twitter 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Zendesk Charitable Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Frank H Jernigan Charitable Foundation Inc · Bothin Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Yelp Foundation
How this is measured
About Twitter Foundation
- How much does Twitter Foundation give?
- Twitter Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $94,550 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does Twitter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Civil Rights (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Twitter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice ($30k), Uprose Inc ($30k), Tipping Point Community ($25k).
- Does Twitter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Twitter 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 Twitter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is Twitter Foundation based?
- Twitter Foundation is based in CA.
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