New Hampshire · Private foundation
The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $768k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $80k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $65k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $79k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover Childrens Home Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Berwick Academy | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Hampshire Catholic Charities | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Aine | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piscataqua Youth Sailing Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community College System of New Hampshire | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover Childrens Home Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Berwick Academy | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Hampshire Catholic Charities | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Aine | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piscataqua Youth Sailing Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community College System of New Hampshire | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Seacoast Community School | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation with peer funders
About The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation
- How much does The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation give?
- The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $94,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dover Childrens Home Inc ($62k), Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc ($48k), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ($30k).
- Does The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation based?
- The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation is based in NH.
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