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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.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$480kHuman Services$80kHealth$50kHousing & Shelter$50kFood & Nutrition$47kAnimals$45kRecreation & Sports$28kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$550k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD$25,000
AVESTA HOUSING$10,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - A$10,000
RED'S GOOD VIBES$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$10,000
HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SEEDS OF HOPE$5,000
CASA OF NH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MONARCH SCHOOL OF NE$5,000
VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS$5,000
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY - MACKENZIE OPRE$5,000
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%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%CHASE HOME: $5k → 5%DOVER POLICE CHARITIES: $500 → 9%SOBER SISTERS RECOVERY: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
RI
GA
FL
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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 13 repeat orgs$637k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 33 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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 ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • 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%
  • GS
    Granite State Dog Recovery
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +77%

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
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
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
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
7
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
8
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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9
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
10
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
11
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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12
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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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 Chase Home for Children. 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

85 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. 85 of the 161 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
62/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Contributions Paid: $205,358 · OtherContributions Paid+108 more: $296,065 · Other+108 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACT…REDS GOOD VIBES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREDS GOOD VIB…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMIS…MALLEY FARM FOR WOMEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesMALLEY FARM F…LIL IGUANAS CHILD SAFETY FOUND: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIL IGUANAS C…The Chase Home: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Chase Hom…THE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME POSS…VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $5,000 · Human ServicesVOUCHERS FOR …+8 more: $13,000 · Human Services+8 moreHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP: $10,000 · AnimalsNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsGranite State Dog Recovery: $10,000 · AnimalsPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,025 · AnimalsCross Roads House Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $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 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthGreater Seacoast Community Health: $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 · EducationEPPING ELEMENTARY PTO: $1,000 · EducationGREENLAND PARENT ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF NEWFIELDS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 · EducationBERWICK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EducationSEACOAST CHARTER SCHOOL: $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$501,423Human Services$83,000Animals$34,025Housing & Shelter$25,500Health$23,500Education$19,500Food & Nutrition$17,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetGranite State Dog Recovery: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetMALLEY FARM FOR WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMAGNOLIA HOUSE NH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetThe Chase Home: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLocker Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS IN ACTION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspire Living & Learning Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOVER PARENTS MUSIC CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCornerstone VNA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Shelter Programs Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRCHTREE CENTER: $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 budgetEPPING ELEMENTARY PTO: $1,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetCONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOOSE MOUNTAINS REGIONAL GREENWAYS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY HOME CARE SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…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

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 Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 161 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-PF 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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