New Hampshire · Private foundation
The Compass Fund
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.
- $426k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,587
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $58,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Compass Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $421k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $366k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $372k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $121k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $232k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $140k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy | $398,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Granite State Woodland Institute | $90,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc | $72,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Brooks School | $62,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bluefin Collaborative | $60,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Cotting School Inc | $55,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Real American Hardwood Coalition | $55,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hartwick College | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Big Island Pond | $45,000 | 5 | 10% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Compass Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: French Fdn Tr Udecl · Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049 · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Fields Pond Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Compass Fund
- How much does The Compass Fund give?
- The Compass Fund reported 65 grants totaling $425,587 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Compass Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Environment (25%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Compass Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy ($398k), Granite State Woodland Institute ($90k), Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc ($72k).
- Does The Compass Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Compass Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Compass Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include French Fdn Tr Udecl, Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Compass Fund based?
- The Compass Fund is based in NH.
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