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Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$132kHousing & Shelter$117kEducation$110kYouth Development$110kHealth$52kRecreation & Sports$32kArts & Culture$31kEnvironment$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$990k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Laconia School District$50,000
Boys & Girls Clubs Of Central New Hampshire$50,000
Lakes Region Community Developers$45,000
Lantos Foundation$15,000
Concord Coalition to End Homelessness$10,000
Southern District YMCA - Camp Lincoln$10,000
Affordable Housing Education and Development Inc$10,000
Granite YMCA$10,000
Mid-State Health Center$10,000
Greater Nashua Habitat For Humanity$10,000
The Home Possible Project$7,500
Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center$7,500
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation$5,960
Individual grant recipient$5,000
White Horse Addiction Center$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Hoyt Foundation: $500 → 17%Direct Relief Foundation: $25 → 14%Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council: $10 → 14%Special Needs Support Center Of The Upper Valley: $3k → 9%Rise Again Outreach Inc: $5k → 7%Winnipesaukee Wellness Center: $50 → 9%Spark Community Center: $2k → 10%Interlakes Community Caregivers: $50 → 9%Rochester Child Care Center: $500 → 9%TLC Family Resource Center: $3k → 10%Grafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $500 → 10%Catholic Charities New Hampshire: $26k → 7%Archway: $3k → 7%Hundred Nights: $100 → 9%Laura Mahoney Autism and Epilepsy Foundation: $5k → 9%Laura Mahoney Autism and Epilepsy Foundation: $5k → 9%Gather For A Hunger Free Community: $5k → 5%American National Red Cross: $25 → 14%Haven Violence Prevention & Support Services: $3k → 5%GATHER For A Hunger Free Community: $3k → 5%Crotched Mountain Foundation: $1k → 7%Family Promise of Greater Concord: $800 → 7%Greater Lakes Region Charitable Fund For Children: $5k → 9%Crotched Mountain Foundation: $1k → 7%The Grapevine Family And Community Resource Center: $1k → 7%Sandwich Childrens Center: $25 → 9%Voices Against Violence: $3k → 10%Plymouth Area Community Closet: $1k → 10%Belknap House: $100 → 9%North Country Public Safety Benevolent Foundation: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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CO
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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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 21 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
174

Total granted

$302k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

76%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • TG
    The Granite Young Men's Christian Association
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +20%
  • LR
    LAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +21%
  • TH
    THE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue -2%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM BELKNAP-MERRIMACK COUNTIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -8%
  • GS
    Greater Seacoast Community Health
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.

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Piscataquog Land Conservancy

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…

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2
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
New Hampshire Lakes Association Inc

To restore and preserve the health of new hampshire's lakes.

Environment
4
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
6
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
7
New Hampshire Public Health Association

Nhpha is a member driven organization that champions public health policy and practice, enriches the workforce and inspires leaders to improve the publics health.

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8
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance

Preservation of historic landmarks, communities and landscapes in order to protect and revitalize the character of the Statess communities and add to their economic vitality.

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9
Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish of New Hampshire Inc; the most unlike its peers is 603 United. 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

172 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. 172 of the 228 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/172
Grantees still filing
70/172
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LACONIA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50,000 · OtherLACONIA SCHOOL DISTRICTThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $40,050 · OtherThe Granite Young Men's Christian AssociationLantos Foundation: $30,000 · OtherLantos FoundationPrescott Farm Environmental Education Center: $22,550 · OtherPrescott Farm Environmental Education CenterLAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $14,005 · Other+126 more: $147,483 · Other+126 moreNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $26,150 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Cathol…COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM BELKNAP-MERRIMACK COUNTIES INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PRO…LAURA MAHONEY AUTISM AND EPILEPSY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesLAURA MAHONEY AUTISM…CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 · Human ServicesCONCORD COALITION TO…THE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $8,750 · Human ServicesTHE HOME POSSIBLE PR…Gather: $7,500 · Human ServicesGatherFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER LAKES REGION CHARITABLE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $5,000 · Human Services+21 more: $22,875 · Human Services+21 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…+8 more: $7,750 · Youth Development+8 moreLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterLACONIA AREA …Families in Transition: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in T…Affordable Housing Education & Development Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAffordable Ho…Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterManchester Ne…Cross Roads House Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCross Roads H…Harbor Homes Inc: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterGreater Seacoast Community Health: $10,000 · HealthMID-STATE HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 · HealthWhite Horse Addiction Center Inc: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $1,850 · HealthSouthern District YMCA-Camp Lincoln Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $625 · Recreation & SportsMonarch School of New England Inc: $5,000 · EducationKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3,000 · EducationLACONIA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $1,300 · EducationLife Bridge Inc: $1,000 · EducationNEW HAMPSHIRE JUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY: $1,000 · Education+5 more: $940 · Education
Other$304,088Human Services$121,275Youth Development$107,750Housing & Shelter$82,000Health$26,850Recreation & Sports$20,625Education$17,240

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $40,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $26,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM BELKNAP-MERRIMACK COUNTIES INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern District YMCA-Camp Lincoln Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $14,005 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA MAHONEY AUTISM AND EPILEPSY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGREATER NASHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMID-STATE HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $8,750 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGather: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LAKES REGION CHARITABLE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYHEW: $2,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHWAYS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES - NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE ALLIANCE FOR SEACOAST TRANSPORTATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNashua Police Athletic League: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST NH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYPOINT: $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLACONIA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION GROUP: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $1,075 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH AREA COMMUNITY CLOSET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

New Hampshire Charita…Cogswell Benevolent T…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Granite United WayMadelaine G Vonweber …Eversource Energy Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Eastern Bank Foundati…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustTrust Uw Oleonda Jame…Arthur L Getz Charita…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH134.4× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Granite United Way · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr

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 Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 228 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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