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Volunteer Nh

VOLUNTEER NH envisions our state as a place where people volunteer together to build strong and connected communities.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$509k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$7.2MEnvironment$5.6MEmployment$3.6MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$873kHousing & Shelter$440kEducation$249kYouth Development$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,776,826, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,870,488 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $93,662 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$25,580
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY YEAR INC$508,662
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSN INC$427,492
SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION$368,032
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN NE$295,207
CITY OF MANCHESTER HEALTH DEPARTMENT - WILLIAMS B CASHIN SENIOR ACTIVITY C$26,578
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY$26,301
603 UNITED$25,580
TOWN OF MILFORD$24,768
ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICE DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY$23,468
THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC$20,286
EASTERSEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC$13,277
CLEAN ENERGY NH$9,885
CRAFTSTUDIES INC$7,290
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, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WILLING HANDS: $32k → 9%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $26k → 5%EASTERSEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $13k → 7%MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $27k → 9%NORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $40k → 10%TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $24k → 13%WILLING HANDS: $28k → 9%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $23k → 5%WILLING HANDS: $5k → 9%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $12k → 5%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 28 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
19

Total granted

$20M
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+14%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +15%
  • GI
    Goodwill Industries of Northern NE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +21%
  • SL
    SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • GU
    GRANITE UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $68k · revenue +40%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    one grant, 2019 · $63k
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +6%
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
Granite State News Collaborative

The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…

Arts & Culture
3
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
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 Children's Health Foundation
Health
6
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
7
Northeast Human Resources Association Inc

To lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.

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8
Nh Civics

Develop, nurture and maintain an informed, engaged, and civil new hampshire citizenry.

Education
9
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. will ensure access to quality care within the communities in which our patients live, provide local and high quality care with positive outcomes to our patients in Coos County while…

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10
New Hampshire Afl-Cio

As a strong statewide voice for all working people, the NH AFL-CIO brings together the unions of New Hampshire into one labor movement that fights for economic and social justice in our workplaces and communities.

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11
New Hampshire Recycles

Enables both small rural and large urban communities to manage their own recycling programs.

Environment
12
Volunteer Nh

Volunteer nh envisions our state as a place where people volunteer together to build strong and connected communities. we bring our vision to life by engaging those communities to solve local challenges through volunteerism.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits; the most unlike its peers is 603 United. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC: $7,121,765 · OtherCITY YEAR INCTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $3,009,307 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCEPILEPSEY FOUNDATION OF NE: $677,685 · OtherEPILEPSEY FOUNDATION OF NE+30 more: $1,052,096 · Other+30 moreGoodwill Industries of Northern NE: $3,565,112 · EmploymentGoodwill Industries…SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $2,422,371 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES A…+3 more: $86,299 · EnvironmentNew Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence: $1,528,160 · Human ServicesNew Hamps…WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $60,167 · Human Services+5 more: $124,505 · Human Services+5 moreHarbor Homes Inc: $369,965 · Housing & ShelterLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $70,001 · Housing & ShelterNEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $159,057 · EducationEducation Alliance for New Hampshire: $101,190 · EducationCAMPUS COMPACT: $76,984 · Education+1 more: $8,557 · EducationMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $134,724 · HealthFRIENDS OF AINE: $14,940 · HealthGranite VNA Inc: $10,003 · Health
Other$11,860,853Employment$3,565,112Environment$2,508,670Human Services$1,777,832Housing & Shelter$439,966Education$345,788Health$159,667

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC: $7,121,765 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northern NE: $3,565,112 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $3,009,307 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $2,422,371 over 9y, 20% of budgetNew Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence: $1,528,160 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $369,965 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $159,057 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $144,885 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $134,724 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Alliance for New Hampshire: $101,190 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCAMPUS COMPACT: $76,984 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $72,468 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $70,001 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC: $68,434 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $64,152 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $62,743 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $60,167 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER: $54,032 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDS PROGRAM INC: $43,416 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetQUEEN CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE: $27,200 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCOOS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI: $26,956 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $26,927 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY: $26,301 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $24,301 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $23,468 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $21,371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Gallery Inc: $20,849 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH CONWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY NH: $16,056 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $15,227 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AINE: $14,940 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $14,557 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHUA INC: $11,796 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTS IN REACH - ENCOURAGING GROWTH THROUGH THE ARTS: $10,796 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGranite VNA Inc: $10,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE ROBOTICS: $8,557 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCraftStudies Inc: $7,290 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $6,099 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Cogswell Benevolent T…Madelaine G Vonweber …Granite United WayEastern Bank Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBank of New Hampshire…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Eversource Energy Fou…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Norwin S and Elizabet…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH73.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Granite United Way · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · 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 Volunteer Nh funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Volunteer Nh. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report 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 55 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 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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