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Lend A Helping Can Inc

LAHC was created to collect donations and distribute money to Not For Profit food banks and homeless shelters in New England.

$384k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$32,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$32,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$77k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Lend A Helping Can Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Food & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving14$384k0%
FY202314$396k14%
FY202214$382k29%
FY202111$287k0%
FY202011$275kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$431kHuman Services$366kCommunity Improvement$287kFood & Nutrition$265kHealth$144kPublic Benefit$47kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$287,4405n/a
Cross Roads House Inc$143,72051%
Families in Transition$143,72050%
Rockingham Community Action$143,7205n/a
David's House Inc$143,71952%
My Friend's Place$143,71956%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$143,71950%
Vermont Foodbank$65,00020%
Got Lunch Campton-Thornton$24,2093n/a
Got Lunch Laconia$8,2501n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($477k), not named here.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to Lend A Helping Can Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lend A Helping Can 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.

About Lend A Helping Can Inc

How much does Lend A Helping Can Inc give?
Lend A Helping Can Inc reported 15 grants totaling $384,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lend A Helping Can Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Human Services (21%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Lend A Helping Can Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Salvation Army ($287k), Cross Roads House Inc ($144k), Families in Transition ($144k).
Does Lend A Helping Can Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lend A Helping Can Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lend A Helping Can Inc based?
Lend A Helping Can Inc is based in NH.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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