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New Hampshire Ball Bearings Foundation at a glance

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New Hampshire Ball Bearings Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$25kHuman Services$4kScience & Tech$4kHousing & Shelter$1kFood & Nutrition$1kEnvironment$500Health$500Arts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation$4,000
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%Rise for Baby and Family: $500 → 9%Hundred Nights Inc: $500 → 9%Hundred Nights Inc: $450 → 9%Hundred Nights Inc: $250 → 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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29k · 5 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$29k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionScience & TechPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • LR
    LAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +19%
  • GH
    Gilford High School FIRST Robotics Team
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k
  • AC
    APK CHARITIES CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • SA
    Scholarship America Inc - Conval Community
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • E6
    END 68 HOURS OF HUNGERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $750 · revenue +28%
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
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
2
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
3
Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

—
4
Monadnock Habitat for Humanity

To provide low-cost housing, home repairs, and other support to economically disadvantaged families.

—
5
Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc

UVHFHs mission is to build affordable, durable,safe, healthy, economical,and energy-efficient homes; strenghthen & enrich communities; & long-term hope, prosperity, health & the lives of families & individuals in the Upper Valley of VT &…

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6
Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire

Our Mission is to end homelessness, one family at a time, because every child deserves a home. Through safe housing and education, Family Promise guides families as they break the cycle, and rise from homelessness to sustainable…

Human Services
7
Northern Lights Housing Corporation

Develop, own and manage subsidized residential housing units and related facilities for qualified elderly and persons living with disabilities.

Housing & Shelter
8
Lake Sunapee Home Care and Hospice

Lake Sunapee Region VNA & Hospice provides health care and hospice services for individuals and families in homes and community settings, fostering continuity of care across settings and enabling people to stay in their homes as long as…

Health
9
Southeast Nh Habitat for Humanity

To build affordable homes in partnership with low income families through volunteer labor, donated materials, and charitable contributions.

—
10
New Hampshire Lakes Association Inc

To restore and preserve the health of new hampshire's lakes.

Environment
11
Hospitality Homes Inc

Hospitality Homes provides temporary housing in volunteer host homes and other donated accommodations for families and friends of patients seeking care at Boston-Area medical centers. Hospitality Homes' unique, homeaway-from-home lodging…

Housing & Shelter
12
North Country Missions

Our mission is to feed the hungry and provide clothing and other related services to the community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hundred Nights Inc; the most unlike its peers is End 68 Hours of Hunger. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $16,854 · OtherLAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONGilford High School FIRST Robotics Team: $7,500 · OtherGilford High School FIRST Robotics TeamScholarship America Inc - Conval Community: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,650 · Other+5 moreFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $3,500 · Science & TechFor Inspir…APK CHARITIES CORPORATION: $3,000 · Public BenefitAPK CHARI…HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesRISE FOR BABY AND FAMILY: $500 · Human ServicesEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $750 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC: $250 · Food & NutritionHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $500 · Environment
Other$27,004Science & Tech$3,500Public Benefit$3,000Human Services$1,700Food & Nutrition$1,000Environment$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKES REGION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $16,854 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPK CHARITIES CORPORATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE FOR BABY AND FAMILY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUN FOR THE FALLEN NH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Cogswell Benevolent T…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Hampshire Ball Bearings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Hampshire Ball Bearings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 New Hampshire Ball Bearings Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to New Hampshire Ball Bearings 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 15 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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