· Public charity
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
Preservation of historic landmarks, communities and landscapes in order to protect and revitalize the character of the Statess communities and add to their economic vitality.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $87,665 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,311 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,646 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 $10k12 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Acworth Historical Society | $10,415 |
| Littleton Community Center | $9,500 |
| Historic New England | $7,000 |
| Granite State Children's Alliance | $7,000 |
| Laconia Historical & Museum Society | $7,000 |
| Canterbury Shaker Village | $7,000 |
| Historic Harrisville Inc | $7,000 |
| Poore Family Foundation | $6,500 |
| Enfield Shaker Museum | $5,250 |
| Atkinson Historical Society | $5,250 |
| Jackson Historical Society | $5,250 |
| Dana Meeting House Association | $5,250 |
| Upper Saco Valley Land Trust | $5,250 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- PTPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $218k · revenue +5%
- PLPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE3× · 2022–2024 · $203k · revenue +18%
- CSCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +314%
Funded once
- MPMAINE PRESERVATIONone grant, 2021 · $191k
- SFSustainable Forest Futures Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $88k · revenue +758%
- MHMILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCone grant, 2021 · $53k
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.
Historical preservation for the town of Penacook and restoration of historical buildings
To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
Historic preservation
The preservation of the Wentworth-Gardner historic house and warehouse which is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Wentworth-Gardner historic house is a classic example of Georgian architecture from the 1700s and is listed on the…
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…
Preserve historic buildings and make them available to the public for educational and historic purposes.
Preservation & maintenance collection
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Preservation of New Engl and the most unlike its peers is Haverhill Library Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 59 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 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Forest Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Portsmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HILL CENTER CHURCH ↗
- Who funds HAVERHILL HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Star Island Corporation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ACWORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Affordable Housing Education & Development Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds LACONIA HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PRESERVATION ↗
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 · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Preservation Alliance 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.
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 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.