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New Hampshire Humanities Council

Since 1974, new hampshire hummanities has brought the power of ideas to people of all walks of life, in every corner of the state.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$532kEducation$154kPublic Benefit$32kInternational$32kEnvironment$28kScience & Tech$20kReligion$20kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $174,343 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,343 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $129k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000$129,198
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE CTY$10,870
QUEERLECTIVE$10,000
BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NH$9,500
PORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MEMORIAL MUS$9,275
NH BOOK AND LITERARY FESTIVAL$5,500
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB: $10k → 16%QUEERLECTIVE: $10k → 7%CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE: $15k → 7%THE BELKNAP MILL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $12k → 9%COOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $15k → 9%ENFILELD SHAKER MUSEUM: $20k → 10%GLOBAL CITIZENS CIRCLE: $15k → 7%WIGGIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $12k → 5%SEE SCIENCE CENTER: $10k → 7%CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE: $10k → 7%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE CTY: $24k → 9%THE BELKNAP MILL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $20k → 9%PLAISTOW PUBLIC LIBRARY: $21k → 5%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE CTY: $14k → 9%TRUTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN INEPENDENCE MUSUM: $20k → 5%MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASS'N: $10k → 7%WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF NH: $22k → 7%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE CTY: $11k → 9%MINOT SLEEPER LIBRARY: $13k → 10%EXETER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 5%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NH: $30k → 5%VARIOUS GRANTS - SEE ATTACHED: $540k → 7%SALT PROJECT: $10k → 9%MOFFATT-LADD HOUSE & GARDEN: $20k → 5%JOURNEYS IN EDUCATIONMARIPOSA: $20k → 7%VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000: $207k → 7%BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NH: $10k → 5%PETERBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOC: $15k → 7%VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000: $144k → 7%BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NH: $10k → 5%MARIPOSA MUSEUM: $10k → 7%VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000: $129k → 7%NH THEATER PROJECT: $10k → 5%VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000: $71k → 7%VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000: $66k → 7%NH CIVICS: $20k → 7%NH INSTITUTE FOR CIVICS EDUCATION: $12k → 7%NH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 7%MC-AULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CTR: $10k → 7%MERRIMACK COUNTY CONSERVATION DIST: $10k → 7%THE AUDOBON SOCIETY OF NH: $10k → 7%NH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $18k → 7%MTKEARSAGE INDIAN MUSEUM: $17k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
37

Total granted

$1.0M
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BH
    BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +216%
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $49k · revenue +1%
  • CV
    Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum
    2× · 2021–2022 · $44k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • PH
    Portsmouth Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +56%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PLAISTOW PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
2
New England Museum of Telephony
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3
Yarmouth Historical Society

To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.

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4
New Hampshire Farm Museum Inc

To preserve new hampshires agricutural roots and celebrate the contemporary relevance of the states agricultural present

Arts & Culture
5
Hampton Historical Society

The mission of the Hampton Historical Society is to increase public knowledge and understanding of the history and cultural heritage of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, from its earliest inhabitants to the present generation. We will…

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6
Holliston Historical Society
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7
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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8
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

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9
Salem Historical Society
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10
Walpole Historical Society
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The Sunapee New Hampshire Historical Society

To bring together those persons interested in the history of Sunapee and in the collection of, preservation and exhibition of documents, photographs and artifacts pertaining to that history.

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12
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History PreservationProfessional Trade Associat…Youth Sports ProgramsDartmouth College Alumni Or…Regional Land Conservation
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%7%<5yr12%12%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr17%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr12%17%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr17%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
8%
552/6,604

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.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS GRANTS - 5000 — $617,298 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTS - 5000+19 more — $226,011 · Other+19 moreBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $69,050 · Arts & CultureBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSH…HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY — $48,845 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COU…Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum — $44,145 · Arts & CultureChosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Mus…CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC — $34,500 · Arts & CultureCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INCBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBELKNAP MILL SOCIETYJOURNEYS IN EDUCATION INC — $29,975 · Arts & CultureJOURNEYS IN EDUCATION INCNew Hampshire Historical Society — $26,848 · Arts & CultureNew Hampshire Historical SocietyTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NH — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMT KEARSARGE INDIAN MUSEUM — $17,000 · Arts & CulturePETERBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK AND LITERARY FESTIVAL — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $77,997 · Arts & Culture+8 moreNH CIVICS — $32,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM — $18,513 · EducationFriends of Minot-Sleeper Library Inc — $12,750 · EducationCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $10,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $10,000 · EducationHANNAH GRIMES CENTER — $9,500 · EducationWorld Affairs Council of New Hampshire — $31,500 · InternationalAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $9,980 · EnvironmentGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC — $7,520 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND CIRCLE D/B/A GLOBAL CITIZENS CIRCLE — $15,000 · Civil RightsNathalie & Theodore Jones Charitable Trust f/b/o Appalachian Mountain Club — $10,000 · PhilanthropySALT PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Religion
Other$843,309Arts & Culture$448,360Education$92,763International$31,500Environment$17,500Civil Rights$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Religion$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $69,050 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY — $48,845 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetChosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum — $44,145 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC — $34,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNH CIVICS — $32,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of New Hampshire — $31,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY — $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetJOURNEYS IN EDUCATION INC — $29,975 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPortsmouth Historical Society — $28,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society — $26,848 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NH — $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPROPRIETORS PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM — $18,513 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNew Hampshire Antiquarian Society DBA Hopkinton Historical Society — $18,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMT KEARSARGE INDIAN MUSEUM — $17,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPETERBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK AND LITERARY FESTIVAL — $15,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CIRCLE D/B/A GLOBAL CITIZENS CIRCLE — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueerlective Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNathalie & Theodore Jones Charitable Trust f/b/o Appalachian Mountain Club — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSALT PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $9,980 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $9,797 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $9,600 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPOSITIVE STREET ART — $9,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHANNAH GRIMES CENTER — $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPORTSMOUTH SUBMARINE & MARITIME ASSOCIATION — $9,275 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGREAT BAY STEWARDS INC — $7,520 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNASHUA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,336 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Madelaine G Vonweber …Eversource Energy Fou…The Eppes - Jefferson…The McIninch Foundati…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…A Caring Community IncCogswell Benevolent T…Fidelity FoundationEastern Cambridge Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…Newburyport Bank Char…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH60.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc · The McIninch Foundation · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation 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 Humanities Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your 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
    11report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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