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C M H 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations C M H Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$130k35%
FY202418$105k17%
FY202317$104k12%
FY202224$118k46%
FY202119$91k37%
FY202015$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$132kInternational$106kFood & Nutrition$74kHousing & Shelter$48kHealth$46kCrime & Legal$44kAnimals$43kArts & Culture$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MA
IN
PA
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
African Educate$100,201628%
The Community Kitchen Inc$38,61561%
The Monadnock Conservancy$36,41561%
Miracle German Shepherd Dog Rescue of Maine$36,23038%
Preble Street$31,04060%
The Colonial Theatre$30,00030%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc$23,68750%
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc$23,50050%
Lakes Environmental Association$23,00050%
First Congregational Church$21,0006n/a
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All grantees of C M H Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
African Educate$100,201628%
The Community Kitchen Inc$38,61561%
The Monadnock Conservancy$36,41561%
Miracle German Shepherd Dog Rescue of Maine$36,23038%
Preble Street$31,04060%
The Colonial Theatre$30,00030%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc$23,68750%
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc$23,50050%
Lakes Environmental Association$23,00050%
First Congregational Church$21,0006n/a
The Granite State Children's Alliance$19,61650%
Cheshire Health Foundation$18,61530%
Brain Injury Association of Nh$15,00010%
Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation$12,00011%
Travis Mills Foundation$11,00030%
Saco Food Pantry$10,54216%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$10,54210%
Maine Audubon Society$8,55040%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc$7,50020%
Save Your Ass Long Ear Rescue$7,00014%
Keene Housing Kids Collaborative$6,62521%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$6,45020%
The Moving Company Dance Center$6,11520%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$6,00020%
Church World Service Inc$5,20020%
Catholic Relief Services$5,2002n/a
Love Your Brain Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Bucknell University$5,00010%
Monadnock United Way Inc$5,00010%
Making Community Connections Charter School$3,92810%
Ogunquit Fire Company$2,5001n/a
Greater Keene Pops Choir$2,5001n/a
Marginal Way Preservation Fund$2,5001n/a
The Park Theatre Inc$1,20010%
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests$1,04510%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$1,00010%
Spofford Lake Association$1,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

C M H Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfrican Educate: $100,201 over 6y, 28% of budgetThe Community Kitchen Inc: $38,615 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy: $36,415 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMiracle German Shepherd Dog Rescue of Maine: $36,230 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetPreble Street: $31,040 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colonial Theatre: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc: $23,687 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc: $23,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLakes Environmental Association: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Granite State Children's Alliance: $19,616 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCheshire Health Foundation: $18,615 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBrain Injury Association of Nh: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTravis Mills Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSaco Food Pantry: $10,542 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $10,542 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $8,550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave Your Ass Long Ear Rescue: $7,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetKeene Housing Kids Collaborative: $6,625 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $6,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moving Company Dance Center: $6,115 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChurch World Service Inc: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLove Your Brain Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBucknell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonadnock United Way Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaking Community Connections Charter School: $3,928 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Park Theatre Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSociety for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpofford Lake Association: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 Charitable FoundationNH29.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Hoffman Family Foundation · National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Kingsbury Fund · The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to C M H 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.

About C M H Foundation

How much does C M H Foundation give?
C M H Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $129,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does C M H Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), International (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are C M H Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: African Educate ($100k), The Community Kitchen Inc ($39k), The Monadnock Conservancy ($36k).
Does C M H Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does C M H 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 C M H Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Hoffman Family Foundation, National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is C M H Foundation based?
C M H Foundation is based in MA.

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 44 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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