How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Hampshire?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Hampshire, currently New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Hampshire from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Hampshire?

$179M reached 388 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, from 815 funders. 32% came from funders also based in New Hampshire.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New Hampshire · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in New Hampshire

Arts and culture funding in New Hampshire is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Cooperatives for a Better World leads, and the money reaches 388 groups.

$179M

granted

388

organizations

32%

from in-state

The short version

815 funders gave $179M to 388 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
32% of that came from funders also based in New Hampshire; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in New Hampshire is New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, at $33M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Cooperatives for a Better World, at $15M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in New Hampshire

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1New Hampshire Charitable Foundation$33M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$22M 3Corporation for Public Broadcasting$16M 4Tides Center$15M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$6M 6The Panjandrum Foundation Co C&S Wholes$4M 7Sixteen Thirty Fund$4M 8Fidelity Foundation$4M 9Manoogian Simone Foundation$4M 10Lilly Endowment Inc$3M

Arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

378 other arts and culture organizations$97M

Cooperatives for a Better World$15M New Hampshire Public Broadcasting$13M New Hampshire Public Radio Inc$13M Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc$10M

How to find arts and culture funders in New Hampshire

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Start with the funders already active in New Hampshire
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in New Hampshire are New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
68% of arts and culture money in New Hampshire comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Hampshire.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New Hampshire?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New Hampshire, currently New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Hampshire from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New Hampshire?: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, $33M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Hampshire?: $179M reached 388 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, from 815 funders. 32% came from funders also based in New Hampshire.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.