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Parker Nelson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$68kHuman Services$42kHousing & Shelter$34kArts & Culture$19kEducation$15kReligion$14kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,680
Median grant
1
States reached
$646k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,500
BACK IN THE SADDLE EQUINE THERAPY CENTER$7,680
BIRCHTREE CENTER$7,200
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NASHUA$2,899
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $6k → 10%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $5k → 5%EASTER SEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5k → 7%BELKNAP HOUSE: $6k → 9%TURNING POINTS NETWORK: $3k → 10%SEACOAST COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 5%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$66k · 8 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
31

Total granted

$66k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationOther

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

  • TB
    THE BIRCHTREE CENTER
    2× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
  • UT
    UPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • KB
    KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • VF
    VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +49%
  • TP
    The PLUS Company Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +2%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +92%

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.

1
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
2
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
3
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
5
New Hampshire Assistive Technology Center

The mission of New Hampshire Assistive Technology Services is to support the needs of people with disabilities that can be met through assistive technologies so they can be active and valued members of their communities.

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6
CityHope of New Hampshire

CityHope walks with individuals and families, empowering and equipping them with the necessary resources and skills needed to thrive in their communities. By providing support services to those experiencing financial hardships and housing…

Human Services
7
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc

To provide mental health services for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.

—
8
Our Place Nh

The mission of our place is to provide residential options, services and support designed to meet the needs of adults with developmental disabilities. we are dedicated to fostering growth and independence through vocational, social, and…

Housing & Shelter
9
Cross Roads House Inc

We offer shelter, respect and collaborative solutions to unhoused individuals and families until they can return to permanent housing and thrive in their community.

Housing & Shelter
10
Headrest Inc

Headrest, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that provides information and referral, crisis intervention and other related services through the uses of a telephone hotline and office visitations. Headrest also provides counseling and…

Health
11
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. will ensure access to quality care within the communities in which our patients live, provide local and high quality care with positive outcomes to our patients in Coos County while…

—
12
Vna at Hcs Inc

To provide services which will enable people to function throughout life at their optimal level of health, well-being, and independence according to their personal beliefs and choices.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theatre Kapow. 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 backsteadyCommunity Support ServicesLegal Aid & Advocacy Servic…International Child WelfareOutdoor Recreation ClubsProfessional Trade Associat…Regional Business & Communi…Professional Trade Associat…Family Support Services
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%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr17%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr17%19%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
8%
506/6,008

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

34 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. 34 of the 42 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The PLUS Company Inc — $9,000 · OtherThe PLUS Company IncBETHANY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH — $8,500 · OtherBETHANY CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCHPEACE OF MIND MEDICAID CONSULTANT — $5,500 · OtherPEACE OF MIND MEDICAID CONSULTANTSEEDS OF FAITH DBA LYDIA'S HOUSE — $5,000 · OtherSEEDS OF FAITH DBA LYDIA'S HOUSEIndividual grant recipient — $3,650 · OtherMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $3,500 · OtherThe River Center Family And Community Re — $3,500 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF — $2,500 · OtherCamereta New England — $2,500 · OtherINSTITUTE ON DISABILITY AT UNH — $2,500 · OtherTHE LAURA FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER …NEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC — $5,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INCAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $3,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc — $2,899 · Other+2 more — $3,250 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES — $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMU…Crotched Mountain Foundation — $8,750 · Human ServicesCrotched Mountain Foundati…Belknap House — $6,400 · Human ServicesBelknap HouseEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $5,318 · Human ServicesEaster Seals New Hampshire…SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INCWAYPOINT — $5,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GR…Seacoast Community School — $5,000 · Human ServicesSeacoast Community SchoolVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVISIONS FOR CR…Families in Transition — $9,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in Tr…Harbor Homes Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes I…SEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE — $3,500 · Housing & ShelterSEACOAST FAMIL…THE BIRCHTREE CENTER — $10,610 · PhilanthropyTHE BIRCHTRE…KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER — $9,500 · PhilanthropyKREMPELS BRA…OPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY …New Hampshire Historical Society — $8,330 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE KAPOW — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $1,862 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureBack In The Saddle Equine Therapy Center — $7,680 · EducationNASHUA ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $3,479 · EducationKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationFarmsteads of New England Inc — $5,000 · HealthHOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthAddiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire — $3,000 · Health
Other$72,799Human Services$49,468Housing & Shelter$27,500Philanthropy$23,110Arts & Culture$14,192Education$14,159Health$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BIRCHTREE CENTER — $10,610 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER — $9,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe PLUS Company Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES — $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation — $8,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society — $8,330 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBack In The Saddle Equine Therapy Center — $7,680 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBelknap House — $6,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEACE OF MIND MEDICAID CONSULTANT — $5,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $5,318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUNGER SOLUTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFarmsteads of New England Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYPOINT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeacoast Community School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE HELP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNASHUA ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $3,479 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAddiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc — $2,899 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $1,862 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Arthur L Getz Charita…Cogswell Benevolent T…M L Billings Tr FBO N…Madelaine G Vonweber …Eversource Energy Fou…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Ann de Nicola TuwSamuel P Hunt Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Agnes M Lindsay TrustArthur Jr Dobles & Ol…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH59.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · M L Billings Tr FBO Nh Charities · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Ann de Nicola Tuw · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut

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 Parker Nelson Foundation 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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

    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 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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