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The Finlay Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$304k
Granted FY2019
19
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$337kHuman Services$75kYouth Development$68kHealth$60kArts & Culture$41kHousing & Shelter$40kRecreation & Sports$23kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2019 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k10 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$8,470
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Children's Museum of New Hampshire$5,000
CASA of NH Inc$5,000
Webster House$5,000
St Joseph Community Services Inc$5,000
Pan-Mass Challenge$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Monadnock Family Services: $20k → 9%Catholic Charities New Hampshire dba New Hampshire Food Bank: $3k → 7%Zebra Crossings: $3k → 9%The Front Door Agency Inc: $5k → 7%The Front Door Agency Inc: $5k → 7%Family Promise of Greater Nashua: $5k → 7%Family Promise of Greater Nashua: $5k → 7%Webster House: $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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 15 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$488k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+24%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +17%
  • NP
    Nashua Police Athletic League
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +159%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • NP
    Nashua Performing Arts Center
    one grant, 2018 · $26k
  • BM
    Breakthrough Manchester at the Derryfield School
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • AD
    Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
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
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Northeast Center for Youth and Families Inc

Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.

Human Services
4
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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5
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
6
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
—
7
New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association

Operations of state wide interscholastic activities involving member schools and their students

—
8
Greater Nashua Council on Alcoholism Keystone Hall

The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.

Health
9
New Hampshire Public Health Association

Nhpha is a member driven organization that champions public health policy and practice, enriches the workforce and inspires leaders to improve the publics health.

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10
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
11
New Hampshire Outright

To create a safe space for youth to explore topics of gender and sexuality in a welcoming and understanding environment.

Youth Development
12
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New Hampshire; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 43 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $310,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL+2 more: $13,470 · EducationAlzheimer's Association: $35,124 · OtherAlzheimer's AssociationNashua Performing Arts Center: $25,500 · OtherNashua Performing Arts CenterSwim With a Mission Inc: $25,000 · OtherSwim With a Mission IncBreakthrough Manchester at the Derryfield School: $12,500 · OtherBreakthrough Manchester at the Derryf…Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders: $11,708 · OtherST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherThe Fay Fund: $10,000 · OtherDreamCatchers NH: $9,837 · OtherGREATER NASHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10,000 · Other+15 more: $66,391 · Other+15 moreMONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesZEBRA CROSSINGS: $2,500 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $2,500 · Human ServicesNashua Police Athletic League: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEMI YOUTH CENTER INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE YOUTH COUNCIL INC: $12,250 · HealthJENNY FUND: $500 · HealthNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFueled by Kids Inc: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$323,470Other$223,560Human Services$50,000Youth Development$45,500Civil Rights$15,000Health$12,750Food & Nutrition$12,500

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 budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $310,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNashua Police Athletic League: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc: $8,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NASHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAYHEW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZEBRA CROSSINGS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 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.

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…Bangor Savings Bank F…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Madelaine G Vonweber …Eastern Bank Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustSamuel P Hunt Foundat…Merrimack County Savi…Arthur L Getz Charita…The Barker Foundation…The McIninch Foundati…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH45× affinity21 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 · 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

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 Finlay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Finlay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to The Finlay Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Finlay 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 43 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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