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The McIninch Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE$25,000
STRAWBERRY BANKE INC$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
CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER$10,000
LAKES REGION MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM$10,000
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER$10,000
RED RIVER THEATRES$10,000
MONARCH SCHOOL$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • MH
    MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • ML
    MEREDITH LIBRARY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -100%
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
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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hundred Nights Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTER: $50,000 · OtherGRANITE YMCA - MANCHESTERSOC FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $50,000 · OtherSOC FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTSFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHNH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL: $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 & ShelterTHE WAY HOME INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER FROM THE STORM: $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 · EnvironmentFrancestown Land Trust Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentKROKA EXPEDITIONS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMEREDITH LIBRARY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP: $21,532 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetAPPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRED RIVER THEATRES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WAY HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCORD NH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUpper Valley Hostel Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF AINE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAYHEW: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWAYPOINT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA CENTER: $6,257 over 1y, 0.1% 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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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.

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 98 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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