· Public charity
Granite State Economic Development Corp
To create economic development by assisting businesses to acquire sba 504 financing to expand their businesses by acquiring, renovating or constructing real estate and/or acquiring machinery & equipment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $288,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $300,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $100,500 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| UTEC INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT | $25,000 |
| USM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE SMALL BUSINESS DEV CT | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $12,500 |
| THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $12,500 |
| KITTERY LAND TRUST | $12,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE | $12,500 |
| BOXES OF LOVE FOR THE HOMELESS | $12,500 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $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 (FY24–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +35%- UIUTEC Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +162%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE7× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $200k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREone grant, 2023 · $98k
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.
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…
The mission of The Genesis Fund is to bring together resources to create housing and other economic and social opportunities for underserved people and communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
To foster and develop economic vitality and prosperity consistent with the goals of the communities we serve.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Chamber helps to make individuals aware of the activities, services, and businesses available in our area, in order to help stimulate the local economy, and enhance, support and promote the prosperity of its members.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads for Women 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 32 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Common Threads of Maine ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOXES OF LOVE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds KITTERY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Hope for Tomorrow Foundation ↗
- Who funds Coastal Economic Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VENTURE MENTORING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA LOFT ↗
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Exeter Hospital Inc · Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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 Granite State Economic Development Corp 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.
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Community Capital of Vermont — 26% of income from government
- Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% 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.