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Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Inc

To advance the education of students by granting secondary school or post- secondary school scholarships to students, male and female, who have participated in the wolverine youth football association, inc.

$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$91kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$28kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$19kPublic Benefit$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $92,206, the rows itemized in this filing. The $208,206 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSN$10,000
PLAYGROUND PROJECT GROUP$10,000
VIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER$10,000
ATKINSON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$10,000
FAMILY PROMISES OF SOUTHERN NH$10,000
1269 CAFE MINISTIES$10,000
AVE'S HOPE$10,000
ROCKINGHAM MEALS ON WHEELS$8,000
POSITIVE STREET ART$8,000
COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF DERRY$6,206
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%NH CATHLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 7%VIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER: $10k → 5%VIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER: $10k → 5%MARRION GARRISH COMMUNITY CTR: $18k → 5%FAMILY PROMISES OF SOUTHERN NH: $10k → 5%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF DERRY: $6k → 5%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.
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 3 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$60k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • VG
    VIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • TG
    The Granite Young Men's Christian Association
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +20%
  • SS
    SONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MG
    MARION GERRISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +9%
  • MG
    MARRION GARRISH COMMUNITY CTR
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • MP
    MANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
Fall Mountain Friendly Meals

To serve meals to handicapped, elderly, & severely-ill residents of alstead, nh. to provide free food to nh residents in need.

Food & Nutrition
2
Manchester Health Services Inc

Home Health Care

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3
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Do You Know Him Ministries

Provide food clothing and comfort to the homeless in So NH

Human Services
5
Centennial Senior Center Inc
Human Services
6
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of New Hampshire

Support Services for Veterans

Public Benefit
7
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
—
8
Derry Rotary Club

Civic Club and Assistance

—
9
Portsmouth Multi Purpose Senior Center

To Serve the Elderly

Human Services
10
Friends of Marlborough Seniors Inc

We provide services to the senior citizens of Marlborough, MA

Human Services
11
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of New Hampshire

Veterans group providing support for veterans and their families and community

—
12
Meredith Food Pantry

Operate a free food pantry for the residents of meredith, nh who are in need.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Grizzlies Wrestling. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $20,000 · OtherThe Granite Young Men's Christian AssociationSONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN: $20,000 · OtherSONSHINE SOUP KITCHENMARRION GARRISH COMMUNITY CTR: $11,000 · OtherMARRION GARRISH COMMUNITY CTRMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSN: $10,000 · OtherMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSNAVES HOPE INC: $10,000 · OtherAVES HOPE INCVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $10,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSATKINSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherATKINSON HISTORICAL SOCIETYPLAYGROUND PROJECT CORP: $10,000 · OtherPLAYGROUND PROJECT CORPBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DERRY: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DERRYMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSN: $10,000 · OtherMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC ASSNUPPER ROOM: $10,000 · OtherUPPER ROOMSEACOAST CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSEACOAST CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERNH CATHLIC CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherNH CATHLIC CHARITIESYOUTH FOOTBAL & CHEER: $10,000 · OtherYOUTH FOOTBAL & CHEERATKINSON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherATKINSON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHHAMPSTEAD FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $9,600 · OtherVIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesVIC GEARY DROP IN CENT…MARION GERRISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesMARION GERRISH COMMUNI…Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $10,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Sout…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $7,500 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic…COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $6,206 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS O…AMERICAN YOUTH FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $8,500 · Recreation & Sports1269 CAFE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · ReligionFriends of Grizzlies Wrestling: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLONDONDERRY FRIENDS OF MUSIC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE STREET ART: $8,000 · Arts & CultureROCKINGHAM NUTRITION AND MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM: $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$180,600Human Services$61,206Recreation & Sports$18,500Religion$10,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$8,000Food & Nutrition$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIC GEARY DROP IN CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMARION GERRISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAVES HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFriends of Grizzlies Wrestling: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetLONDONDERRY FRIENDS OF MUSIC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH FOOTBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROCKINGHAM NUTRITION AND MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $6,206 over 1y, 1.3% 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…Alexander Eastman Fou…Granite United WayCogswell Benevolent T…Eversource Energy Fou…Great NH Restaurants …Arthur L Getz Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Alexander Eastman Foundation · Granite United Way · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Great NH Restaurants Charitable Trust · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Derry Wolverine Dream Foundation Inc 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 28 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 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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