How much does Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust give?

Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $1,125,532 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Youth Development (38%), Education (31%), Philanthropy (17%).

Who are Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Mayhew ($515k), The Derryfield School ($415k), New Hampshire Catholic Charities ($34k).

Does Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.

Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust

Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust

Q: Where is Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust based?

Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust is based in NH.

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$505k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Youth Development$536kEducation$438kPhilanthropy$243kHealth$103kFood & Nutrition$38kInternational$19kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k9 grants · $24k
$50k–250k1 grant · $237k
$250k+2 grants · $865k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE MAYHEW PROGRAM	$505,000
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER	$360,000
NH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$237,032
NH FOOD BANK	$5,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPI	$5,000
THE CIRCLE PROGRAM	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
AIR ARTS IN REACH	$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL	$2,000
THE BRINGHAM CIRCLE SOCIETY	$1,500
THE MUSIC HALL	$1,000
NEW CASTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+72%

Still filing today

54%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

M
MAYHEW
5× · 2017–2022 · $515k · revenue +117%
TD
THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL
6× · 2017–2022 · $415k · revenue +22%
NH
New Hampshire Catholic Charities
6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +25%

Funded once

WH
WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +24%
CT
CHILDREN'S TRUST INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -12%
UV
UPPER VALLEY HAVENgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +72%

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.

New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation

Health

The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc

To provide mental health services for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.

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New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture

Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

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

New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

The new hampshire center for nonprofits strengthens and gives voice to the state's nonprofit sector by providing leadership development programs, facilitating collaboration, and offering learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders, staff,…

Education

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter

MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health

New Hampshire Outright

To create a safe space for youth to explore topics of gender and sexuality in a welcoming and understanding environment.

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

33 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. 33 of the 53 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

29/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,064,600Philanthropy$242,532Human Services$47,200Education$25,500International$19,000Health$15,250Youth Development$13,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Charitable FoundationNH39.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Granite United Way · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Bartko Family Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin I Elkin and Pauline G Elkin Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home