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St Mary's Bank Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$521kHealth$450kArts & Culture$125kEducation$47kFood & Nutrition$16kCrime & Legal$14kCivil Rights$10kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARK STEBBINS COMMUNITY CENTER$500,000
PALACE THEATRE$30,000
FRIENDS OF AINE$5,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$5,000
CASA OF NH$5,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE SPCA$5,000
NH HARM REDUCTION COALITION$5,000
FELLOWSHIP HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC$5,000
THE SUITCASE PROJECT$4,680
GRANITE VNA INC$4,000
HELP ME GROW PEDIATRIC REHAB SERVICES$3,320
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FOREST$3,240
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
NASHUA REGIONAL PLANNING FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%NH FOOD BANK: $6k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $5k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
VA
SC
AL
TX
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.
$589k · 11 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
34

Total granted

$589k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+65%

Still filing today

36%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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
    PALACE THEATRE TRUST
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +161%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +9%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NC
    NH COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • RF
    REACH FOR THE TOP THERAPYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +65%
  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +86%
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
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
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
3
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
4
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc

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

—
6
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
7
Home Health and Hospice Care

Home Health and Hospice Care provides trusted patient centered services that enhance each individual's independence and quality throughout life.

Health
8
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
9
Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter
10
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…

—
11
St Peter's Home

To provide day care services to children in the manchester, new hampshire area.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stepping Stones. 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

19 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. 19 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mark Stebbins Community Center: $500,000 · PhilanthropyMark Stebbins Community Center+1 more: $4,680 · PhilanthropyCatholic Medical Center: $425,000 · HealthCatholic Medical Center+4 more: $18,570 · HealthPALACE THEATRE TRUST: $120,000 · Arts & CulturePALACE THEA…+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNH COALITION: $10,000 · OtherNH COALITI…NH HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $5,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $5,000 · OtherCASA: $5,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL: $4,979 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5,000 · OtherMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $5,000 · Other+46 more: $69,203 · Other+46 moreNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $15,956 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES: $5,338 · Human ServicesNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,014 · Religion
Philanthropy$504,680Health$443,570Arts & Culture$125,000Other$114,182Human Services$21,294Animals$10,000Religion$6,014

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 budgetMark Stebbins Community Center: $500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCatholic Medical Center: $425,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $15,956 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREACH FOR THE TOP THERAPY: $6,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,014 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPPING STONES: $5,338 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGranite VNA Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP ME GROW PEDIATRIC REHAB SEVICES: $3,320 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER NASHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $3,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashua Community Music School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Eastern Bank Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Norwin S and Elizabet…Southern New Hampshir…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…The Horne Family Foun…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Agnes M Lindsay TrustEversource Energy Fou…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH28.7× affinity12 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati · Southern New Hampshire University · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · The Horne Family Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc

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 St Mary's Bank Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Mary's Bank Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 St Mary's Bank Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to St Mary's Bank Charitable 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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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