· Private foundation
J Henry Hanhisalo Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| GARRISON PLAYERS | $8,000 |
| FRANKLIN OPERA HOUSE | $6,000 |
| MANCHESTER CHORAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| THE PARK THEATER | $3,000 |
| UNH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE PALACE THEATER | $3,000 |
| CONCORD COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATI | $3,000 |
| GRANITE STATE CHORAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| SEE SCIENCE CENTER | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PCPORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY10× · 2017–2026 · $148k · revenue +86%
- CCCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL7× · 2020–2026 · $120k · revenue +30%
- FOFRANKLIN OPERA HOUSE INC10× · 2017–2026 · $62k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TPTHE PALACE THEATERone grant, 2026 · $3k
- SSSEE SCIENCE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2026 · $3k · revenue +128%
- TPTHE PARK THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2026 · $3k · revenue +206%
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.
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
The Music Hall (TMH) is a community-supported, nonprofit live entertainment venue with acclaimed film, music, theater, literary, and dance performances in two theaters in downtown Portsmouth, NH. Its 900-seat Historic Theater, built in…
(1) to bring together singers and audiences who share a common interest in high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions; (2) to establish and maintain…
The mission of lyric theatre company is to produce musicals and other performing arts of professional quality for northern new england. we offer both members and the public opportunities for learning and growth with an emphasis on…
The seacoast repertory theatre is a non-profit, professional regional theater located in historic downtown portsmouth, nh. its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire through the power of live theater. this mission is achieved through…
Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…
The peterborough players enriches the human experience by producing quality live professional theatre, developing and training theatre artists, and offering new hampshire a wide variety of performing arts events.
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
To culturally enrich the communities of northern new hampshire through high quality perfomances of the chamber music repertoire and through creative interactive educational and community programs.
Chester theatre company produces contemporary professional equity theatre in an intimate setting, creating community and offering audiences fresh perspectives on vital issues. we present exceptional performances, tell diverse stories, hold…
The schools mission is to foster the love and pursuit of music within the community through quality activities that are accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concord Community Music School and the most unlike its peers is Portsmouth Christian Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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 PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MANCHESTER CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEE SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK THEATRE INC ↗
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 · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 J Henry Hanhisalo Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.