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Samuel P Hunt Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Samuel P Hunt Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$589k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$681kHuman Services$595kEnvironment$445kYouth Development$382kEducation$353kHealth$352kHousing & Shelter$300kRecreation & Sports$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARK STEBBINS COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL BETHLEHEM$25,000
FUTURE IN SIGHT$25,000
NH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NASHUA$25,000
STRAWBERRY BANKE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER-DERRYFIELD SCHOOL$20,000
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE$20,000
BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY$20,000
RED RIVER THEATRES$20,000
HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMMUNITY SVCS$20,000
MAYNARD HOUSE$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELKNAP HOUSE: $12k → 9%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $13k → 5%BELKNAP HOUSE: $11k → 9%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $25k → 9%SEEDS OF FAITH: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $8k → 5%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION & SUPPORT SVC: $15k → 5%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $15k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $15k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $10k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $10k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $8k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $18k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $15k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $15k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $11k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $5k → 7%NASHUA CENTER: $16k → 7%NASHUA CENTER: $11k → 7%NASHUA CENTER: $9k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $75k → 7%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 45 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
65

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +32%
  • CS
    CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +514%
  • MH
    MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +16%
  • M
    MAYHEWgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +104%
  • UU
    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF MANCHESTER
    one grant, 2024 · $28k
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
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
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.

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3
Center Meeting House of Newbury Nh Inc

Restore and maintain the 1832 Meetinghouse located in the center of Newbury,NH

Arts & Culture
4
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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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
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
8
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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9
Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment
10
Northeast Historic Film

To collect and preserve the film and video record of northern new england (maine, new hampshire, vermont and massachusetts), and to provide public access to the history and culture of the region embodied in it.

—
11
Habitat for Humanity of the Kearsarge Sunapee Area Inc

To witness to and implement the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the towns of Andover, Bradford, Danbury, New London, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Newbury, Wilmot and Newport located in the State of NH by working with economically disadvantaged…

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12
New Hampshire Farm Museum Inc

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hundred Nights Inc; 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

92 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. 92 of the 126 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
56/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $163,195 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTSGRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTER: $150,000 · OtherGRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTERBREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER-DERRYFIELD SCHOOL: $115,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER-DERRYFIELD SCHOOLMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · OtherNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $83,500 · OtherGIRLS INC: $68,695 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $81,521 · Other+66 more: $1,299,448 · Other+66 moreCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCANTERBURY SHAK…AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $55,312 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDEPE…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSE…THE ANDOVER COMMUNITY HUB: $31,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ANDOVER COM…PALACE THEATRE TRUST: $29,313 · Arts & CulturePALACE THEATRE …CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of The Music Hall: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRED RIVER THEATRES INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $48,800 · Arts & Culture+5 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $75,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …WEBSTER HOUSE: $63,500 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HOUS…THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $57,500 · Human ServicesTHE FRONT DO…Crotched Mountain Foundation: $37,500 · Human ServicesCrotched Mou…NASHUA CENTER: $36,702 · Human ServicesNASHUA CENTE…WAYPOINT: $35,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHUNDRED NIGH…Belknap House: $23,200 · Human ServicesBelknap Hous…COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $20,018 · Human ServicesHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $133,304 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,400 · Youth DevelopmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $55,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25,000 · EnvironmentNEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EnvironmentFrancestown Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $44,249 · Recreation & SportsCARTER COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsLONDONDERRY TRAILWAYS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL: $23,500 · Recreation & SportsCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFamilies in Transition: $46,320 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCOVER HOME REPAIR INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE: $11,158 · Housing & ShelterTHE WAY HOME INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,051,359Arts & Culture$484,425Human Services$403,420Youth Development$244,704Environment$200,000Recreation & Sports$142,749Housing & Shelter$112,478

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $133,304 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $83,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $81,521 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE: $63,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $57,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $55,312 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmoskeag Health: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $46,320 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $45,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $44,249 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $37,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNASHUA CENTER: $36,702 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWAYPOINT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYHEW: $34,744 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHome HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ANDOVER COMMUNITY HUB: $31,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCARTER COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST: $29,313 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKISMET ROCK FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBARRINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMEREDITH LIBRARY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL: $23,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBelknap House: $23,200 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAREGIVERS OF GREATER DERRY: $20,018 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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…Cogswell Benevolent T…Madelaine G Vonweber …The McIninch Foundati…Eastern Bank Foundati…Arthur L Getz Charita…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Granite United WayEversource Energy Fou…Bangor Savings Bank F…Agnes M Lindsay TrustTrust Uw Oleonda Jame…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH134.7× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · The McIninch Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Granite United Way · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson

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 Samuel P Hunt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel P Hunt Foundation. 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 3%
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: 6% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
33report 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 126 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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