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New Hampshire Democracy Fund

To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.

$782k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$227k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$382kCommunity Improvement$151kEnvironment$135kHuman Services$120kPhilanthropy$95kArts & Culture$49k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $667k
$41,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Forward Foundation$226,551
Granite State Organizing Project$135,500
ACLU$75,000
State Power Fund$60,000
New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute$60,000
State Revenue Alliance$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
Community Engagement Training Center$15,000
New Hampshire AIR MIRA Coalition$15,000
New Hampshire Youth Movement$13,000
Manchester Community Action Fund$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%State Power Fund: $60k → 17%State Revenue Alliance: $60k → 19%YWCA NH: $30k → 7%Community Engagement Training Center: $15k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$402k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$1.6M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • TF
    THE FORWARD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $575k · revenue +12% · 83% of their budget
  • AV
    America Votes
    3× · 2020–2022 · $211k · revenue +495%
  • GS
    GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $211k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESS ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +67%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashuagraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • AV
    America Votes Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
New Hampshire Democracy Fund

To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.

Civil Rights
2
Open Democracy Action

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…

—
3
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
4
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.

—
5
Granite State News Collaborative

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Nh Civics

Develop, nurture and maintain an informed, engaged, and civil new hampshire citizenry.

Education
7
New Virginia Majority

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.

Civil Rights
8
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…

Philanthropy
9
National Popular Vote

To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States

Public Benefit
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont Inc

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.

—
11
Nonprofit Vote Inc

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.

Civil Rights
12
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Vermont Inc

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FORWARD FOUNDATION: $574,645 · EducationTHE FORWARD FOUNDATIONAmerica Votes: $211,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica VotesGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $210,500 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE ORGANIZ…Coalition For Open Democracy: $190,000 · Public BenefitCoalition For Open…NEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 · Public BenefitNEW HAMPSHIRE FISC…New Leaders Council: $25,000 · Public BenefitNew Leaders Counci…NEW VENTURE FUND: $190,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE…350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $40,000 · Environment350 NEW HAM…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $126,030 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…NEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $75,000 · Civil RightsNEW HAMPSHI…MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSET…America Votes Education Fund: $10,000 · Civil RightsRESIST INC: $80,000 · OtherRESIST INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIV…AMPLIFY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $41,000 · OtherAMPLIFY NEW …NEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECT: $13,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDA…+1 more: $7,500 · OtherSTATE POWER FUND: $120,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TRAINING CENTER: $15,000 · Human Services
Education$574,645Community Improvement$421,500Public Benefit$375,000Environment$230,000Civil Rights$226,030Other$246,500Human Services$165,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FORWARD FOUNDATION: $574,645 over 3y, 83% of budgetAmerica Votes: $211,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $210,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetCoalition For Open Democracy: $190,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $126,030 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $120,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRESIST INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESS ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAMPLIFY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $41,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Leaders Council: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECT: $13,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetQueerlective Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% 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…New Hampshire Progres…Tides FoundationWindward FundEndowment For Health …NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH26.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Democracy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Hampshire Democracy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–10%
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 Democracy Fund?

Find your warmest path to New Hampshire Democracy Fund 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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