· Private foundation
Cogswell Benevolent Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AINE CENTER | $75,000 |
| GRANITE UNITED WAY | $60,000 |
| EASTER SEALS NH | $50,000 |
| NH FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| NH FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| ST AMSELM'S JEAN SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES | $50,000 |
| MY TURN | $50,000 |
| WAYPOINT NH | $50,000 |
| CAMP ALLEN NH | $40,000 |
| LIVE & LET LIVE FARM INC | $32,000 |
| GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NASHUA | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
198 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2025, 127 since wound down; 29 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNew Hampshire Catholic Charities9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +25%
- GUGRANITE UNITED WAY9× · 2017–2025 · $873k · revenue +40%
- FIFamilies in Transition9× · 2017–2025 · $770k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SNSOUTHERN NH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $56k
- GMGREATER MANCHESTER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS HILLSBOROUGH COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. will ensure access to quality care within the communities in which our patients live, provide local and high quality care with positive outcomes to our patients in Coos County while…
The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.
ARCNH community recovery center is a Peer-to-Peer recovery coaching program that is designed to provide those on the path to recovery with individualized care and support from those with personal experiences with SUDS
We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…
To provide mental health services for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.
Nhpha is a member driven organization that champions public health policy and practice, enriches the workforce and inspires leaders to improve the publics health.
The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…
How this is measured
221 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 221 of the 381 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Mary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Catholic Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds The Granite Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds THE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Amoskeag Health ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Nashua Police Athletic League ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight ↗
- Who funds RIVERBEND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Granite United Way · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cogswell Benevolent Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cogswell Benevolent Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
- Camp Starfish Inc: 18% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- New England Kurn Hattin Homes: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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