· Private foundation
The Foss Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| PITTSFIELD MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL | $36,333 |
| NH FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CONCORD HOSPITAL TRUST | $30,000 |
| CHAD | $25,000 |
| MSPCA ANGELL | $25,000 |
| THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| THE PITTSFIELD PLAYERS | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KREMPLES CENTER | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHConcord Hospital Trust7× · 2019–2025 · $181k · revenue +318%
- NHNew Hampshire Catholic Charities6× · 2020–2025 · $99k · revenue +14%
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENT NHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- 1C1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DDAREone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Support and further the charitable activities of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital & Health Foundation by being operated in connection with said organizations.
Rescue and re-adoption of dogs and cats.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Concord Hospital is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.
The mission of APD Lifecare Center is to improve the health and well-being of our community
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Concord Hospital Trust ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSFIELD PLAYERS ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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