About Travelers Foundation
Travelers Foundation concentrates on large, impact-oriented grants that support disaster recovery and resilient housing, K–12 career-pathway programs, and volunteer-driven affordable housing efforts. They make relatively few but sizable awards, often renewing support for the same organizations to scale programs and projects with measurable operational needs. The foundation appears purpose-driven toward community resilience, rebuilding, and workforce readiness rather than broad-based small grantmaking.
Focus Areas
Post-disaster rebuilding and community resilience (e.g., St. Bernard Project)K–12 career pathways and workforce-readiness programs (e.g., ReadyCT)Volunteer-driven affordable housing and construction projects (e.g., Habitat for Humanity field team builds)
Who They Fund
at-risk Hartford youth / city-based K–12 studentscollege-bound and postsecondary students (scholarship recipients)low-income homeowners and neighborhoods (housing build beneficiaries)families of children with serious illness (hospital outreach program participants)
About Travelers Foundation
A defining pattern at Travelers Foundation is repeated seven-figure support for St Bernard Project Inc in New Orleans, backing Building FORTIFIED Communities and the organization’s disaster assistance work across multiple years. That kind of sustained commitment points to a funder that is comfortable pairing operating support with program funding when a project is meant to scale. The foundation’s recent grants also show a second consistent line of work in Hartford: support for ReadyCT, United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, Hartford Promise Inc, and Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford. Those awards connect education, workforce readiness, and college-success programming with place-based community investment. The foundation gives across a national footprint, but its recent portfolio is organized around a few practical themes: disaster recovery and resilient housing, K–12 career pathways, higher-education access, and neighborhood-level community support. Grants are often sized to sustain programs over time rather than to seed one-off efforts. In addition to nonprofit operating support, Travelers Foundation uses program and project support to back specific initiatives such as disaster resilience, scholarship funds, and volunteer-centered housing work. The result is a portfolio that looks built for implementation and continuation, not short-term pilots.
What Travelers Foundation Funds
In disaster resilience, Travelers Foundation backed St Bernard Project Inc with $1,000,000 in 2025 for operating support, Building FORTIFIED Communities, and continuing to scale the Disaster Assistance Program for national implementation. That same year, they also used project funding for Habitat for Humanity International’s field office team volunteer builds, showing interest in construction-based recovery work. Education and workforce readiness are another clear thread. ReadyCT received $605,000 in 2024 for operating and program support tied to K–12 Career Pathways. College access appears as well: Hartford Promise Inc received $125,000 in 2025 for its Integrated College Success Program and Scholarship Fund, while College Possible was funded for its Catalyze program in Saint Paul. Community-serving youth programs also appear in the portfolio. Our Piece Of The Pie Inc received $125,000 for the Youth Service Corps, a paid service-learning program for at-risk Hartford youth. The foundation also supported the Connecticut Science Center’s mission fulfillment activities through operating support.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.9M
Total Assets
$16.4M
Total Revenue
$21.5M
Total Expenses
$5.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $15K and $50K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
National19 states funded
About 21% of grants go to recipients in CT.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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