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The McIninch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$314k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$490kHuman Services$216kHousing & Shelter$210kEnvironment$203kEducation$141kYouth Development$114kHealth$92kCommunity Improvement$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $262k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION$37,400
MARK STEBBINS COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
STRAWBERRY BANKE INC$25,000
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE$25,000
BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION$20,000
THE PARK THEATRE$20,000
MT KEARSARGE INDIAN MUSEUM$15,000
SOC FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS$15,000
HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE & COMM SVC PUBLIC$15,000
MONARCH SCHOOL$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER$10,000
RED RIVER THEATRES$10,000
LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM$10,000
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER$10,000
CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $25k → 9%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $10k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $10k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $10k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN NH: $5k → 7%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $6k → 7%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $15k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $15k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $6k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $5k → 7%NASHUA CENTER: $6k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $15k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$817k · 26 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
60

Total granted

$817k
$678k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+19%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHealthEducationOther

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

  • CS
    CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +514%
  • TP
    THE PARK THEATRE INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • GY
    GRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • ML
    MEREDITH LIBRARY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • MS
    MCDONOUGH SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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3
North Country Center for the Arts Inc

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

Arts & Culture
4
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
5
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance

Preservation of historic landmarks, communities and landscapes in order to protect and revitalize the character of the Statess communities and add to their economic vitality.

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6
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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7
Center Meeting House of Newbury Nh Inc

Restore and maintain the 1832 Meetinghouse located in the center of Newbury,NH

Arts & Culture
8
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
9
New Hampshire Farm Museum Inc

To preserve new hampshires agricutural roots and celebrate the contemporary relevance of the states agricultural present

Arts & Culture
10
Wentworth-Gardner Historic House Association

The preservation of the Wentworth-Gardner historic house and warehouse which is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Wentworth-Gardner historic house is a classic example of Georgian architecture from the 1700s and is listed on the…

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11
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
12
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hundred Nights Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelter From the Storm. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeterans Support Organizati…Charitable Trusts and Endow…Community Health & Support …Law Enforcement & Firefight…Legal Advocacy & Justice Ac…Mental Illness Housing Supp…Early Childhood Education C…Local History PreservationCommunity Health & Wellness…Professional Trade Associat…Faith-Based Education Cente…Member Recreation ClubsYouth Recreation & Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr17%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr17%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/66
the rest of the field
8%
551/6,589

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.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
43/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOC FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS — $50,000 · OtherSOC FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTSFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHGRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTER — $50,000 · OtherGRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTERNH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $30,000 · OtherTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherMark Stebbins Community Center — $30,000 · Other+53 more — $616,077 · Other+53 moreCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE…THE PARK THEATRE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARK THEATRE INCLAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureLAKES REGION MODEL RAILRO…CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $38,000 · Arts & CultureCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIE…BELKNAP MILL SOCIETY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBELKNAP MILL SOCIETYPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $28,000 · Arts & CulturePALACE THEATRE TRUSTMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP — $21,532 · Arts & CultureMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVE…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $17,600 · Arts & CultureMT KEARSARGE INDIAN MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $38,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreWEBSTER HOUSE — $40,500 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HO…THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRONT …HUNDRED NIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHUNDRED NI…Sunset Hill Educational Institute Inc — $15,300 · Human ServicesSunset Hil…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men'…WAYPOINT — $7,500 · Human ServicesNASHUA CENTER — $6,257 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $4,625 · Human ServicesFamilies in Transition — $54,912 · Housing & ShelterManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER FROM THE STORM — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE WAY HOME INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCONCORD AREA TRUST FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentNEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER — $10,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club — $6,500 · EnvironmentKROKA EXPEDITIONS INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentFrancestown Land Trust Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Star Island Corporation — $37,500 · Community ImprovementWILLING WORKERS SOCIETY — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$886,077Arts & Culture$368,632Human Services$149,182Housing & Shelter$102,912Environment$61,500Youth Development$50,000Community Improvement$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC — $90,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $54,912 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARK THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE — $40,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $40,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $38,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation — $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBELKNAP MILL SOCIETY — $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEREDITH LIBRARY FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP — $21,532 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $17,600 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSunset Hill Educational Institute Inc — $15,300 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetNEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC — $12,253 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER — $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRED RIVER THEATRES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM — $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCORD NH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUpper Valley Hostel Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE WAY HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC — $9,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORSINGERS INC — $8,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThe Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD AREA TRUST FOR COMMUNITY HOUSING — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAYPOINT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYHEW — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA CENTER — $6,257 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Cogswell Benevolent T…Madelaine G Vonweber …Eastern Bank Foundati…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Eversource Energy Fou…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Agnes M Lindsay TrustFidelity FoundationArthur L Getz Charita…Norwin S and Elizabet…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH104× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati

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 McIninch 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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