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The Anthony & Gladys Sakowich Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$539k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MHealth$793kYouth Development$291kHuman Services$228kArts & Culture$164kRecreation & Sports$118kFood & Nutrition$75kHousing & Shelter$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERRIMACK COLLEGE$200,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA$55,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL$50,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S PRESERVATION SOCIETY$30,500
FAMILY PROMISE OF CONCORD$25,000
CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY$20,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER LAKES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
KIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER LAWRENCE FOUNDATION$10,000
BOW FOUNDATION$10,000
BELKNAP MILL SOCIETY$9,000
NASHUA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$7,500
LAKES REGION MENTAL HEALTH$5,200
NEW BEGINNINGS WITHOUT VIOLENCE & ABUSE$5,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WOLFEBORO$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEBSTER HOUSE: $12k → 7%LAKES REGION CANCER SUPPORT: $25k → 9%WEBSTER HOUSE: $3k → 7%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF CARROL COUNTY: $5k → 9%WEBSTER HOUSE: $3k → 7%BELKNAP HOUSE: $20k → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $15k → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $15k → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $10k → 9%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
MO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 33 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
32

Total granted

$3.4M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+41%

Still filing today

61%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MERRIMACK COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +77%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +24%
  • NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • CS
    CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +183%
  • LH
    LAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Disability Rights Center - Nh Inc

Disability rights center - new hampshire protects, advances, and strengthens the legal rights and advocacy interests of all people with disabilities.

Human Services
4
David's House Inc

To provide a home away from home and support for families with children receiving treatment through the children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center.

Health
5
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
6
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
7
Bridgton Academy

To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.

Education
8
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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9
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
10
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
11
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
12
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

D-HH operates to establish, manage, govern, and fundraise for an integrated healthcare delivery System. To that end, D-HH is particularly focused to: - Manage the healthcare System to provide services to the public in the most…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lakes Region Mental Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manchester Tactical Officers 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

42 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. 42 of the 86 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1,400,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGENOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $150,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC+4 more: $37,200 · EducationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $300,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LAKES REGION: $145,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LAKES REGIONKIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER LAWRENCE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER LAWRENCE FOUNDAT…HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $99,500 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE: $90,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCEIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF CONCORD: $50,000 · OtherLAHEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · OtherBREAD & ROSES SOUP KITCHEN OF LAWRENCE: $50,000 · OtherCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · Other+47 more: $387,611 · Other+47 moreLAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC: $250,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC…LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC…THE LAKES REGION MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,200 · HealthTHE BOW FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthNAMI National: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $12,000 · HealthMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNashua Police Athletic League: $7,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY: $109,650 · Arts & CultureCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBelknap House: $60,000 · Human ServicesLAKES REGION CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HOUSE: $17,000 · Human ServicesThe Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Giving Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAMP ALLEN INC: $79,000 · Recreation & SportsAbenaki Outing Club: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsLAKES REGION DISABLED SPORTS AT GU: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,587,200Other$1,417,111Health$417,200Youth Development$165,500Arts & Culture$129,650Human Services$117,000Recreation & Sports$99,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1,400,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY: $109,650 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP ALLEN INC: $79,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBelknap House: $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTILTON SCHOOL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKES REGION CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $20,559 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAKES REGION MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOW FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE: $17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI National: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAbenaki Outing Club: $15,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee: $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNashua Police Athletic League: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKES REGION DISABLED SPORTS AT GU: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS WITHOUT VIOLENCE & ABUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOME POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetWEST AFRICAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Giving Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGID'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER TACTICAL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetADVANTAGE KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $200 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.

  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BELKNAP MILL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ALLEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Belknap House ↗
  • Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TILTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AVIATION & AEROSPACE EDUCATION CENTER AT WINNIPESAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds LAKES REGION CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKES REGION MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds WEBSTER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Abenaki Outing Club ↗
  • Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
  • Who funds SPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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 Charitable FoundationNH38.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Greater Lakes Region Charitable Fund for Children Inc · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Granite United Way · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The McIninch 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 The Anthony & Gladys Sakowich Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anthony & Gladys Sakowich Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • West African Research Association: 13% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Anthony & Gladys Sakowich 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.

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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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