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Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$564k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$391k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$480kHuman Services$80kHealth$50kHousing & Shelter$50kFood & Nutrition$47kAnimals$45kRecreation & Sports$28kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $391k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$550k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SLA FOUNDATION$390,978
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD$25,000
AVESTA HOUSING$10,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - A$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD$10,000
RED'S GOOD VIBES$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$10,000
GORDON COLLEGE - EMILY ESTERS$5,000
VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION$5,000
LOCKER PROJECT$5,000
HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SEEDS OF HOPE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSISTANCE CANINE TRAINING SERVICES: $1k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD: $10k → 7%SHARE FUND INC: $500 → 9%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $3k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD: $25k → 9%LIL' IGUANAS CHILDREN'S SAFETY: $5k → 7%ZEBRA CROSSINGS: $1k → 9%ZEBRA CROSSINGS: $1k → 9%RED'S GOOD VIBES: $10k → 5%DOVER POLICE CHARITIES: $500 → 9%CHASE HOME: $5k → 5%SOBER SISTERS RECOVERY: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
RI
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 13 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
114

Total granted

$66k
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $561k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GS
    Granite State Dog Recovery
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +77%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +363%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CP
    Contributions Paid
    one grant, 2024 · $205k
  • WT
    WAYPOINT - TRANSITIONAL LIVING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CC
    COOPERATIVE CU ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
3
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
5
Addiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire

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

Health
6
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
7
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
8
Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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9
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
10
Easter Seals Maine Inc

To provide plans of care comprised of thoughtfully integrated services that help those with varied abilities live, learn, work, and play throughout their lifetimes.

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11
CityHope of New Hampshire

CityHope walks with individuals and families, empowering and equipping them with the necessary resources and skills needed to thrive in their communities. By providing support services to those experiencing financial hardships and housing…

Human Services
12
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sla Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeterans Service Organizati…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Alternative K-12 SchoolsCommunity Health & Housing …Elementary School PTOsYouth Recreation & Developm…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Member Social & Recreation …Professional Trade Associat…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Community Food PantriesDisability Services & Suppo…Animal Rescue and Rehabilit…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr17%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr13%72%35–55yr17%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/96
the rest of the field
9%
836/8,982

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 162 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
63/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SLA FOUNDATION — $390,978 · OtherSLA FOUNDATIONContributions Paid — $205,358 · OtherContributions Paid+108 more — $296,065 · Other+108 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY — $25,000 · Human ServicesREDS GOOD VIBES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIL IGUANAS CHILD SAFETY FOUND — $5,000 · Human ServicesMALLEY FARM FOR WOMEN — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesVOUCHERS FOR VETERANS — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Chase Home — $5,000 · Human Services+8 more — $13,000 · Human ServicesGranite State Dog Recovery — $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP — $10,000 · AnimalsNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 · AnimalsPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 · Animals+2 more — $2,025 · AnimalsAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCross Roads House Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in Transition — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterMAGNOLIA HOUSE NH — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · HealthGreater Seacoast Community Health — $2,500 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthCornerstone VNA — $2,500 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Health — $1,500 · HealthRETT'S ROOST — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthMonarch School of New England Inc — $3,500 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $2,500 · EducationDOVER ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $2,500 · EducationDOVER PARENTS MUSIC CLUB INC — $2,500 · EducationUniversity of New England — $1,250 · EducationSouthern New Hampshire University — $1,250 · EducationBERWICK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · EducationSEACOAST CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF NEWFIELDS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 · EducationGREENLAND PARENT ORGANIZATION — $1,000 · EducationEPPING ELEMENTARY PTO — $1,000 · Education+2 more — $1,000 · EducationGood Shepherd Food Bank — $10,000 · Food & NutritionLocker Project — $5,000 · Food & NutritionDOVER COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES COUNCIL INC — $1,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$892,401Human Services$83,000Animals$34,025Housing & Shelter$25,500Health$23,500Education$19,500Food & Nutrition$17,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGranite State Dog Recovery — $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCross Roads House Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFootprints Inc Footprints Food Pantry — $5,025 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALLEY FARM FOR WOMEN — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLocker Project — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAGNOLIA HOUSE NH — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Handicapped Sports Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chase Home — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAspire Living & Learning Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FUND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone VNA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOVER PARENTS MUSIC CLUB INC — $2,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetZEBRA CROSSINGS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOVER COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BIRCHTREE CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Shelter Programs Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOOSE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL GREENWAYS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSISTANCE CANINE TRAINING SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJENS FRIENDS CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY HOME CARE SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…A Caring Community IncBangor Savings Bank F…Foundation for Seacoa…Granite United WayEversource Energy Fou…Cogswell Benevolent T…Agnes M Lindsay TrustFirst Seacoast Commun…United Way Of Massach…Federal Savings Bank …Madelaine G Vonweber …
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH68.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Granite United Way · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · First Seacoast Community Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Federal Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees

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 Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Aspire Living & Learning Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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