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Barrette Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $422k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| NORTHERN STAGE | $150,000 |
| Upper Valley Haven | $122,000 |
| Lebanon Opera House | $50,000 |
| Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HANOVER NURSEY SCHOOL | $38,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUN | $15,000 |
| Gift of Adoption | $15,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $10,000 |
| Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital | $10,000 |
| Interplay Jazz Arts Inc | $10,000 |
| CLAREMONT SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| Friends of University Laval | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +227%
- DMDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center9× · 2017–2025 · $984k · revenue +52% · 74% of their budget
- KUKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY6× · 2018–2025 · $410k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIESone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +0%
- HCHopkins Center for the Artsone grant, 2023 · $50k
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…
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.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meriden Bird Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The New London Hospital Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Interplay Jazz & Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITE LAVAL ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Sunapee Heritage Alliance ↗
- Who funds VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKER BRIDGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA NORTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Burkehaven Family Foundation · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · The Help for People Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barrette Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Toddlers Morning Out — 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Creative Lives Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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