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The Kingsbury Fund at a glance

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The Kingsbury Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$486kEducation$216kHousing & Shelter$132kHuman Services$93kPublic Benefit$47kCommunity Improvement$43kFood & Nutrition$39kHealth$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NH CIVICS$20,000
THE RIVER CENTER$14,000
APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC$12,870
HISTORIC HARRISVILLE$10,000
LET IT SHINE$9,000
KEENE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$8,500
THE COLONIAL THEATRE$8,000
SEVEN HILLS NEW HAMPSHIRE$7,000
THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN$5,700
HCS$5,059
MOCO ARTS - MOVING COMPANY DANCE CENTER$5,000
KEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ASHUELOT CONCERTS$5,000
HUNDRED NIGHTS INC$4,200
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 (FY19–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EASTER SEALS: $250 → 7%THE RIVER CENTER: $14k → 7%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $50k → 9%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $50k → 9%MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $26k → 9%KEENE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 9%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $10k → 9%HUNDRED NIGHT INC: $8k → 9%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $4k → 9%SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 9%KEENE FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 9%KEENE FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 9%MONADNOCK DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $200 → 9%MONADNOCK DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $200 → 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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$892k · 44 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
41

Total granted

$892k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

61%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • HN
    HUNDRED NIGHTS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $122k · revenue +123%
  • AH
    APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +151%
  • MF
    MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES
    3× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MF
    MONADNOCK FOOD PANTRY COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • MC
    MOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -26%
  • TW
    THE WALPOLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture
2
Peterborough Historical Society

The monadnock center connects residents and visitors to the history and culture of the monadnock region of nh.

Arts & Culture
3
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Kennebunkport Historical Society

To preserve, protect and present kennebunkport's social, cultural and architectural history.

Arts & Culture
5
Keene Endowment Association

Keene Endowment Association (KEA) helps donors to provide scholarships for Keene State College (KSC) students and resources to enhance their education. The KEA Board also helps to give donors the assurance that their philanthropy will make…

Education
6
Monadnock Economic Development Corp

Promotion of business development and relocations to the monadnock region of new hampshire.

Community Improvement
7
Monadnock International Film Festival

Celebrate our world's diversity through independent films that educate, enrich and engage audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Monadnock Music

Monadnock music makes exceptional music accessible to all in intimate and informal settings in the town and villages of the monadnock region and beyond. through a commitment to varied and imaginative performances and teaching, monadnock…

—
9
Penacookhistoricalsociety

Historical preservation for the town of Penacook and restoration of historical buildings

Arts & Culture
10
Monadnock Habitat for Humanity

To provide low-cost housing, home repairs, and other support to economically disadvantaged families.

—
11
The General Henry Knox Museum

The general henry knox museum serves to honor the life and times of henry knox and the heritage of montpelier.

Arts & Culture
12
Keene Community Music Center

To provide music education and performance opportunities to the Monadnock region.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keene Housing Kids Collaborative; the most unlike its peers is The Walpole Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 96 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEENE STATE COLLEGE: $144,100 · OtherKEENE STATE COLLEGEKEENE STATE COLLEGE - REDFERN ARTS CTR: $67,000 · OtherKEENE STATE COLLEGE - REDFERN ARTS CTRIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEVEN HILLS NEW HAMPSHIRE: $32,000 · OtherSEVEN HILLS NEW HAMPSHIREMONADNOCK FOOD PANTRY COLLECTIVE: $31,000 · OtherNHDI (NH DANCE INSTITUTE): $27,700 · OtherMOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY: $25,000 · OtherMOCO ARTS - MOVING COMPANY DANCE CENTER: $24,000 · OtherHISTORICAL SOC OF CHESHIRE CTY: $22,500 · OtherAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR: $20,000 · Other+53 more: $151,025 · Other+53 moreTHE COLONIAL THEATRE: $153,608 · Arts & CultureTHE COLONIAL THEATREAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $71,370 · Arts & CultureAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER…HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $23,900 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIR…PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC: $15,700 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $44,640 · Arts & Culture+9 moreHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $122,033 · Human ServicesHUNDRED NIGHTS INCMONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $27,500 · Human ServicesMONADNOCK FAMILY S…KEENE SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKEENE SENIOR CITIZ…THE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER CENTER F…+4 more: $5,983 · Human ServicesNH CIVICS: $20,000 · EducationKEENE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $16,000 · EducationTHE 1833 SOCIETY: $5,700 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology: $3,000 · EducationCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $40 · EducationTHE WALPOLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $6,200 · Food & NutritionCHESHIRE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSTONEWALL FARM: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$584,325Arts & Culture$309,218Human Services$189,516Education$49,240Community Improvement$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,700

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 budgetTHE COLONIAL THEATRE: $153,608 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $122,033 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $71,370 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE WALPOLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $23,900 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNH CIVICS: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKEENE SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKEENE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC: $15,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $14,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLET IT SHINE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetASHUELOT CONCERTS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHome HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc: $8,110 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1833 SOCIETY: $5,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND: $5,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC: $4,290 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKEENE ROTARY CLUB COMM SVC FUND INC: $4,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEENE LIONS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MOVING COMPANY DANCE CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $2,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetRAYLYNMOR OPERA: $2,200 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEENE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEENE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $1,450 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE KEENE CHORALE INC: $1,105 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKEENE ELM CITY ROTARY CLUB: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHESHIRE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONADNOCK CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAPS COUNSELING SERVICES: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAFT GRATITUDE: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CLARENCE DEMAR MARATHON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTONEWALL FARM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONADNOCK DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KEENE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $40 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 THE COLONIAL THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds HUNDRED NIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT CAESAR UNION LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE WALPOLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NH CIVICS ↗
  • Who funds KEENE SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds KEENE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER CENTER FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LET IT SHINE INC ↗
  • Who funds KEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ASHUELOT CONCERTS ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Home HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE 1833 SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND ↗

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…Hoffman Family Founda…National Grange Mutua…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Eversource Energy Fou…Monadnock United Way …The Eppes - Jefferson…Cogswell Benevolent T…Timken Foundation of …Timken Co Charitable …Merrill Family Charit…Madelaine G Vonweber …
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH70.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Hoffman Family Foundation · National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Monadnock United Way Inc · The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Timken Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Kingsbury Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Kingsbury Fund 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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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