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· 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.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$105kEducation$62kEnvironment$25kReligion$16kHousing & Shelter$13kEmployment$7kCrime & Legal$7k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $87,665, the rows itemized in this filing. The $181,311 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $93,646 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Acworth Historical Society$10,415
Littleton Community Center$9,500
Canterbury Shaker Village$7,000
Historic New England$7,000
Historic Harrisville Inc$7,000
Granite State Children's Alliance$7,000
Laconia Historical & Museum Society$7,000
Poore Family Foundation$6,500
Atkinson Historical Society$5,250
Dana Meeting House Association$5,250
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust$5,250
Enfield Shaker Museum$5,250
Jackson Historical Society$5,250
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Littleton Community Center: $10k → 10%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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$638k · 13 repeat orgs$686k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
36

Total granted

$638k
$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PT
    PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $218k · revenue +129%
  • PL
    PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $203k · revenue +18%
  • CS
    CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +314%

Funded once

  • MP
    MAINE PRESERVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $191k
  • SF
    Sustainable Forest Futures Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $88k · revenue +758%
  • MH
    MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOC
    one grant, 2021 · $53k
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
Penacookhistoricalsociety

Historical preservation for the town of Penacook and restoration of historical buildings

Arts & Culture
2
Walpole Historical Society
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3
Lincolnville Historical Society

To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna

Unclassified
4
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

—
5
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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6
Wentworth-Gardner Historic House Association

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…

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7
Salem Historical Society
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8
Winchester Historical Society
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9
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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10
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
11
Topsfield Historical Society

Preserve historic buildings and make them available to the public for educational and historic purposes.

Arts & Culture
12
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Preservation of New Engl; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $218,113 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INCPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $203,095 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATECANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $26,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $23,963 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $110,105 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMAINE PRESERVATION: $190,999 · OtherMAINE PRESERVATIONMILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOC: $52,659 · OtherMILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCCANAAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40,760 · OtherCANAAN SCHOOL DISTRICTPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NY STATE: $37,382 · OtherPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NY STATEPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT: $26,070 · Other+30 more: $229,477 · Other+30 moreSustainable Forest Futures Inc: $87,793 · EnvironmentMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $24,000 · Community ImprovementHAVERHILL HERITAGE INC: $15,250 · Community ImprovementThe Star Island Corporation: $14,000 · Community ImprovementLITTLETON COMMUNITY CENTER: $9,500 · Human ServicesTHE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $7,000 · Crime & LegalAffordable Housing Education & Development Inc: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$581,776Other$577,347Environment$87,793Community Improvement$53,250Human Services$9,500Crime & Legal$7,000Housing & Shelter$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $218,113 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $203,095 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSustainable Forest Futures Inc: $87,793 over 1y, 18% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMASCOMA VALLEY PRESERVATION: $24,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $23,963 over 1y, 25% of budgetPOORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY: $17,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetPortsmouth Historical Society: $16,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHILL CENTER CHURCH: $16,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetHAVERHILL HERITAGE INC: $15,250 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC: $12,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetACWORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,415 over 1y, 17% of budgetMEREDITH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLACONIA HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAffordable Housing Education & Development Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHLEHEM REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $6,340 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY: $6,300 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWOMANS CLUB OF CONCORD NH: $6,300 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE WARNER HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $5,600 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetOPERA NORTH: $5,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJACKSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum: $5,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHESTERFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Farm Museum Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHAVERHILL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,250 over 1y, 4.5% 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…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Madelaine G Vonweber …Cogswell Benevolent T…Bank of New Hampshire…Eversource Energy Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH41.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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