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Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$131kYouth Development$91kHousing & Shelter$65kHealth$50kCrime & Legal$27kRecreation & Sports$22kFood & Nutrition$19kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$989k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNOR'S CLIMB FOUNDATION$5,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$5,000
THE GRANITE YMCA - YMCA OF CONCORD$4,545
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL NH$3,500
NH CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES$3,000
CIRCLE PROGRAM$3,000
CATCH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING$2,500
WAYPOINT$2,500
GIRLS INC OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$2,500
SALEM FAMILY RESOURCES$2,500
PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP$2,500
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD$2,500
THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN$2,500
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION$2,500
NASHUA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$2,500
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 (FY22–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%STEP UP PARENTS: $3k → 5%STEP UP PARENTS: $3k → 5%THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $5k → 7%THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $5k → 7%OVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES: $4k → 7%THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $3k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD: $3k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $3k → 7%OVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $3k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $2k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $2k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $2k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $2k → 7%OVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $1k → 7%OVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES: $2k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD: $2k → 7%FRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN: $1k → 7%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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$350k · 40 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
27

Total granted

$350k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+44%

Still filing today

80%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua
    8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +62%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +152%
  • TF
    THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • GI
    Girls Inc.
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMP
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • NT
    NH Technical Institute - Concord's Community College
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Greater Nashua Council on Alcoholism Keystone Hall

The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.

Health
4
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
5
Concord Counseling Services

Providing mental health, alcohol, and drug addiction treatment services to the residents of Franklin county as well as educational material and prevention services.

Health
6
Children's Law Center of New Hampshire

To provide legal representation and social services advocacy to new hampshire low-income and underserved children across multiple legal contexts.

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
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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9
New Hampshire Women's Foundation Inc

New hampshire women's foundation invests in opportunity and equality for women and girls in new hampshire through research, advocacy, education and grant making.

Education
10
Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc

NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire enhances people's lives and the community environment by providing access to quality housing services, revitalizing neighborhoods and supporting opportunities for personal empowerment. The target market…

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
New Hampshire Public Health Association

Nhpha is a member driven organization that champions public health policy and practice, enriches the workforce and inspires leaders to improve the publics health.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Children's Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concord Dental Sealant Coalition. 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 backsteadyYouth and Family DevelopmentLegal Aid & Justice AccessYouth Scholarships & Perfor…School Support OrganizationsProfessional Membership Ass…Community Theater Organizat…Member Social ClubsCommunity Music ProgramsProfessional Associations &…Law Enforcement & Firefight…
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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr11%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr18%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr11%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr18%32%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
8%
278/3,329

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

47 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. 47 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP INC — $22,700 · OtherPITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP INCCIRCLE PROGRAM — $13,500 · OtherCIRCLE PROGRAMTHE GRANITE YMCA - YMCA OF CONCORD — $12,265 · OtherTHE GRANITE YMCA - YMCA OF CONCORDCONCORD DENTAL SEALANT COALITION — $12,000 · OtherCONCORD DENTAL SEALANT COALITIONPENACOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,866 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $9,500 · OtherBRIGID'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $9,500 · OtherRIVERBEND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH — $9,500 · OtherMerrimack Valley Day Care Service — $8,462 · OtherCourt Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of NH, Inc. — $8,000 · Other+39 more — $104,408 · Other+39 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $22,580 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Associat…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC — $16,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONC…THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC — $16,100 · Human ServicesTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INCWAYPOINT — $15,500 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTOVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES — $11,000 · Human ServicesOVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICESMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC — $9,560 · Human ServicesMARGUERITE'S PLACE INCNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $7,300 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Chariti…STEP UP PARENTS — $5,575 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire — $5,500 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HOUSE — $4,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,300 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF NH DRUG COURTS — $10,700 · HealthConcord Hospital Trust — $7,400 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION — $7,000 · HealthConcord Hospital Inc — $4,540 · HealthBRIDGES DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES — $2,100 · HealthNEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $2,000 · HealthBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc — $11,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentNashua Police Athletic League — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCONCORD AREA TRUST FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING — $6,600 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in Transition — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureNew Hampshire Historical Society — $2,100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF CONCORD CREW — $4,650 · Recreation & SportsBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$220,701Human Services$116,165Health$33,740Youth Development$21,750Housing & Shelter$17,100Arts & Culture$10,100Recreation & Sports$6,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP INC — $22,700 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $22,580 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CONCORD INC — $16,250 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC — $16,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWAYPOINT — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM — $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCONCORD DENTAL SEALANT COALITION — $12,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc — $11,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOVERCOMERS REFUGEE SERVICES — $11,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPENACOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,866 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF NH DRUG COURTS — $10,700 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC — $9,560 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGID'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $9,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRIVERBEND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH — $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack Valley Day Care Service — $8,462 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Hospital Trust — $7,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $7,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCORD NH — $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONCORD AREA TRUST FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING — $6,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEP UP PARENTS — $5,575 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMAYHEW — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire — $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CONCORD CREW — $4,650 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetConcord Hospital Inc — $4,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNashua Police Athletic League — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORGOTTEN CHILDREN — $2,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $2,180 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGES DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES — $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society — $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE HAVEN BOYS CENTER — $1,993 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN RIVERS FOOD PANTRY — $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…Madelaine G Vonweber …Cogswell Benevolent T…Eastern Bank Foundati…Granite United WayBangor Savings Bank F…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Agnes M Lindsay TrustArthur Jr Dobles & Ol…M L Billings Tr FBO N…Arthur L Getz Charita…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH77.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Granite United Way · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · M L Billings Tr FBO Nh Charities · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Samuel P Hunt 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 Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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

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    How do I get to Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn?

    Find your warmest path to Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn 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 76 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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