· Community foundation
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
We achieve our purpose by: supporting New Hampshire's nonprofit organizations and students; connecting generous people with pressing community needs and effective ways to give; collaborating, building relationships and learning from all of our community partners; advocating and using our voice on important public issues; and investing…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 949 grants below total $59,747,839 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,739,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,992,077 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k173 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k515 grants · $12M
- $50k–250k212 grants · $20M
- $250k+49 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tilton School | $2,615,500 |
| Portsmouth Submarine Memorial Association | $1,383,255 |
| NH Children's Trust Inc | $1,304,301 |
| New Futures | $1,195,062 |
| Saint Anselm College | $1,006,108 |
| JSI Research & Training Inst | $940,000 |
| North Country Education Services Agency | $836,350 |
| Society for the Protection of NH Forests | $783,371 |
| Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire | $723,161 |
| Post-Landfill Action Network | $695,103 |
| Sanborn Mills Inc | $673,055 |
| UNH Office of Sponsored Programs | $599,729 |
| The Community Builders Hub | $585,000 |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $550,000 |
| Affordable Housing Education and Development Inc | $519,098 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $24.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
1166 repeat relationships — 756 still active in FY2024, 410 since wound down; 159 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NFNEW FUTURES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +59% · 61% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +35%
JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BOBank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue +154%
- SISOCIAL IMPACT COMMONS INCone grant, 2023 · $592k · revenue -26% · 30% of their budget
- PCPRIME COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
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.
The mission of the northeast human resources association is to lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.
To foster growth of the competitive enterprise system of business in new england; to develop and maintain comprehensive views of new england conditions and problems; to secure recognition of the commonality of economic interest specific to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Storm Warriors International. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1585 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. 1585 of the 1,954 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TILTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SANBORN MILLS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY EDUCATION SERVICES AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENT-LED SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES INC PLAN - POST-LANDFILL ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Human Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Academy ↗
- Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY NH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Seacoast Community Health ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Granite United Way · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Endowment For Health Inc · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · The Couch Family Foundation · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Mascoma Bank Foundation · A Caring Community Inc
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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation 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.
- Twin Pines Housing Trust — 100% of income from government
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Investment Corporation — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
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.