· Public charity
New Hampshire Democracy Fund
To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $667k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Forward Foundation | $226,551 |
| Granite State Organizing Project | $135,500 |
| ACLU | $75,000 |
| State Revenue Alliance | $60,000 |
| State Power Fund | $60,000 |
| New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute | $60,000 |
| New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Instiitue | $50,000 |
| Amplify New Hampshire | $41,000 |
| 350 NH | $30,000 |
| Coalition for Open Democracy | $25,000 |
| Manchester Community Action Coalition | $20,000 |
| New Hampshire AIR MIRA Coalition | $15,000 |
| Community Engagement Training Center | $15,000 |
| New Hampshire Youth Movement | $13,000 |
| Manchester Community Action Fund | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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
- TFTHE FORWARD FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $575k · revenue +12% · 83% of their budget
- AVAmerica Votes3× · 2020–2022 · $211k · revenue +495%
- GSGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $211k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +67%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashuagraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +50%
- AVAmerica Votes Education Fundone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.
Bring about and safeguard political equality for the people of New Hampshire. This will only happen through an open, accountable, and trusted democratic government, of, by, and for the people, that is free from the corrupting influence of…
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.
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.
The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…
Develop, nurture and maintain an informed, engaged, and civil new hampshire citizenry.
New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.
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…
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States
The ACLU of Vermont is a membership organization that protects civil liberties. Its work includes communication and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and State Constitutions.
Nonprofit VOTE equips our nation's nonprofits with nonpartisan tools and resources to help the communities they serve to participate in voting and democracy. Nonprofit VOTE manages National Voter Registration Day.
The ACLU Foundation of Vermont is an organization that protects civil liberties. It provides legal representation, communication, and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and Vermont Constitutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Community Engagement Training Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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
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 THE FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
- Who funds GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Coalition For Open Democracy ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds STATE POWER FUND ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds 350 NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ↗
- Who funds New Leaders Council ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds America Votes Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Queerlective 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Progress Alliance · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Endowment For Health Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Democracy Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% 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.
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