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New Hampshire Bar Foundation

The NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR FOUNDATION promotes philanthropy dedicated to ensure that all people in new hampshire, especially those with limited means, are able to understand and participate fully in the justice system.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$897k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Crime & Legal$8.9MHuman Services$597kPublic Benefit$9kEducation$8kHealth$7kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,647,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,820,237 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,237 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $237k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$143,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE$897,000
603 LEGAL AID$480,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER$143,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF NH$94,000
NHBA LAWYER REFERRAL SERVICE - MODEST MEANS$33,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $591k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $143k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $93k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $59k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $57k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $54k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $53k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $48k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $39k → 7%DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $36k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NH: $10k → 7%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 6 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$9.4M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+101%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +119% · 28% of their budget
  • 6L
    603 LEGAL AID
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +225% · 53% of their budget
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE PRO BONO REFERRAL SYSTEM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +32% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • NC
    NH CIVICSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +423%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +35%
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
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism

Protect independent journalism that holds government accountable to the people

Public Benefit
3
New Hampshire Association for Justice

New hampshire statewide professional association of trial attorneys, core programs include professional development programming and advocacy to promote certain public policies.

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4
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
5
New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute

New hampshire fiscal policy institute promotes opportunity and economic well-being for all new hampshire residents by producing and disseminating independent research and analysis to inform public policy.

Public Benefit
6
New Hampshire Bar Foundation

The new hampshire bar foundation promotes philanthropy dedicated to ensure that all people in new hampshire, especially those with limited means, are able to understand and participate fully in the justice system. the bar foundation serves…

Crime & Legal
7
Nh Center for Justice & Equity

We elevate and empower people of color in New Hampshire by fostering connections, changing systems, and meeting community needs to make a better Granite State where all belong.

Civil Rights
8
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
9
New Hampshire Progress Alliance

The organization's purpose is to support efforts to education, inform, and engage of the people of New Hampshire to build civic participation and knowledge around important issues. The organization assesses the interests and needs of New…

Civil Rights
10
New Hampshire Bible Society
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11
New England Center for Investigative Reporting Inc
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12
New Hampshire Afl-Cio

As a strong statewide voice for all working people, the NH AFL-CIO brings together the unions of New Hampshire into one labor movement that fights for economic and social justice in our workplaces and communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Legal Assistance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridges Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services. 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

14 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $5,625,827 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INCNEW HAMPSHIRE PRO BONO REFERRAL SYSTEM: $1,088,500 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE PRO BONO REFERRAL SYSTEM+1 more: $95,500 · Other603 LEGAL AID: $1,953,627 · Crime & Legal603 LEGAL AIDCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $94,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $6,000 · Crime & LegalDISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER - NH INC: $580,677 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $33,255 · Arts & CultureTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNH CIVICS: $9,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $8,000 · EducationHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC: $6,800 · HealthBRIDGES DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES: $6,000 · Health
Other$6,809,827Crime & Legal$2,053,627Human Services$590,677Arts & Culture$38,255Education$17,400Health$12,800

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 budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $5,625,827 over 9y, 28% of budget603 LEGAL AID: $1,953,627 over 9y, 53% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PRO BONO REFERRAL SYSTEM: $1,088,500 over 5y, 41% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER - NH INC: $580,677 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE BAR ASSOCIATION: $95,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $33,255 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNH CIVICS: $9,400 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURTHISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Granite United WayDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Granite United Way · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Hampshire Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 14 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 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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