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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$26kEducation$23kYouth Development$17kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$12kScience & Tech$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$511k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,200
UNITED GRIDIRON CLUB$3,000
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB$2,058
THE WELL CDC$2,000
ROCA KIDZ CLUB$2,000
MCAULIFF-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER$2,000
SEE SCIENCE CENTER$2,000
THE BRIGHT SIDE PROJECT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $2k → 15%THE BUCKEYE RANCH: $5k → 15%THE BUCKEYE RANCH: $4k → 15%THE BUCKEYE RANCH: $3k → 15%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 15 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$104k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TB
    THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +33%
  • KF
    KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +89%
  • TH
    THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • 2F
    211 FAIRFIELD COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -7%
  • KN
    Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnersgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
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
Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce Inc

The Chamber helps to make individuals aware of the activities, services, and businesses available in our area, in order to help stimulate the local economy, and enhance, support and promote the prosperity of its members.

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2
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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3
Newton Community Service Centers Inc

Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. for more than 117 years, family access…

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4
Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc

NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire enhances people's lives and the community environment by providing access to quality housing services, revitalizing neighborhoods and supporting opportunities for personal empowerment. The target market…

Housing & Shelter
5
Nh Civics

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

Education
6
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
7
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

The new hampshire center for nonprofits strengthens and gives voice to the state's nonprofit sector by providing leadership development programs, facilitating collaboration, and offering learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders, staff,…

Education
8
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
9
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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10
The River Center Family & Community Resource Center

Providing community connections, parenting support, job search skills, tax and money coaching to strengthen individuals and families in the eastern monadnock region.

Human Services
11
Children's Law Center of New Hampshire

To provide legal representation and social services advocacy to new hampshire low-income and underserved children across multiple legal contexts.

Crime & Legal
12
Northeast Kingdom Collaborative Inc

Provided funds to Community Organizations for the good of the surrounding towns

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Buckeye Ranch Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Sutton Improvement Society Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER: $11,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTERIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientElm Grove Cares - Manchester Proud: $10,120 · OtherElm Grove Cares - Manchester ProudIndividual grant recipient: $9,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipient211 FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $4,000 · OtherKearsarge Neighborhood Partners: $3,000 · OtherROCA KIDZ CLUB: $3,000 · OtherTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $3,000 · OtherUNITED GRIDIRON CLUB: $3,000 · Other+15 more: $18,030 · Other+15 moreTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE RAN…THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FA…NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEW DIRECTIONS …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF OHIO: $11,547 · EducationCOMMUNITI…KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC: $10,088 · Food & NutritionBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $6,147 · Youth DevelopmentSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureFamilies in Transition: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterGRACEHAVEN INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $1,040 · Housing & Shelter
Other$80,575Human Services$18,500Education$11,547Food & Nutrition$10,088Youth Development$6,147Arts & Culture$6,100Housing & Shelter$6,040

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF OHIO: $11,547 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC: $10,088 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC: $6,147 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKearsarge Neighborhood Partners: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED GRIDIRON CLUB: $3,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRACEHAVEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutton Historical Society Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH SIDE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Sutton Improvement Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Columbus FoundationNew Hampshire Charita…Encova Foundation of …Harry C Moores Founda…United Way of Central…American Electric Pow…Siemer Family Foundat…Ingram-White Castle F…Cardinal Health Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for Good
Columbus FoundationOH21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 Prospect Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prospect Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Prospect Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Prospect Foundation 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 37 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-PF 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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