· Private foundation
The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK | $25,000 |
| PISCATAQUA YOUTH SAILING | $12,000 |
| DOVER CHILDRENS HOME | $12,000 |
| ROCKINGHAM NUTRITION & MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NH | $10,000 |
| THE COPPER MOUNTAIN CAMP | $10,000 |
| BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCIEAN SCIENCES | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEALS - VETERANS COUNT | $5,000 |
| BERWICK ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDOVER CHILDRENS HOME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +50%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +5%
- BLBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF AINEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +344%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +83%- ESEaster Seals New Hampshire Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +31%
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.
Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…
Seacoast Christian School is a private not-for-profit non-boarding Christian school. In addition to striving for academic excellence, it seeks to teach students to be life-long servants of God and to live out their faith in all area of…
To provide a home away from home and support for families with children receiving treatment through the children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center.
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Daycare services
Oliverian is a non-profit, alternative, college-prep boarding school for adolescents who have not thrived in traditional settings. we fill the gap between traditional and therapeutic schools, providing the right mix of support and guided…
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
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 19 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 DOVER CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds BERWICK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AINE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc ↗
- Who funds Piscataqua Youth Sailing Association ↗
- Who funds Seacoast Community School ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Southern New Hampshire University · Granite United Way · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sylvester and Stanhope Foster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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