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The Finlay Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Loomis Chaffee School | $50,000 |
| The Loomis Chaffee School | $50,000 |
| The Loomis Chaffee School | $50,000 |
| The Loomis Chaffee School | $30,000 |
| Swim With a Mission Inc | $25,000 |
| Monadnock Family Services | $20,000 |
| Girl Scouts of the Green & White Mts | $12,500 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $11,708 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $11,708 |
| Monarch School of New England | $8,470 |
| Webster House | $5,000 |
| CASA of NH Inc | $5,000 |
| The Children's Museum of New Hampshire | $5,000 |
| Pan-Mass Challenge | $5,000 |
| St Joseph Community Services Inc | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +17%
- NPNashua Police Athletic League2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +159%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- NPNashua Performing Arts Centerone grant, 2018 · $26k
- BMBreakthrough Manchester at the Derryfield Schoolone grant, 2018 · $13k
- ADAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disordersone grant, 2017 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
Daycare services
Operations of state wide interscholastic activities involving member schools and their students
The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.
Nhpha is a member driven organization that champions public health policy and practice, enriches the workforce and inspires leaders to improve the publics health.
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.
To create a safe space for youth to explore topics of gender and sexuality in a welcoming and understanding environment.
To provide mental health services for persons in the Greater Manchester, NH area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire and the most unlike its peers is Jenny Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Nashua Police Athletic League ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds Monarch School of New England Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER NASHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PETERBOROUGH FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds KEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Life Bridge Inc ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds Peterborough Wave Swim Club Inc ↗
- Who funds PEMI YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ZEBRA CROSSINGS ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds Fueled by Kids Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eastern Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · The Barker Foundation Inc · The McIninch Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Finlay Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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