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 Tides Center, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. 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?

Tides Center gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, $29M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$73M reached 204 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, from 376 funders. 18% 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

Most of it comes from outside New Hampshire: only 18% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Funding is concentrated: Cooperatives for a Better World alone draws 41% of every arts and culture grant dollar in New Hampshire.

$73M

granted

204

organizations

18%

from in-state

The short version

376 funders gave $73M to 204 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
18% 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 Tides Center, at $29M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Cooperatives for a Better World, at $30M.

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.

1Tides Center$29M 2New Hampshire Charitable Foundation$7M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$7M 4Corporation for Public Broadcasting$5M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$3M 6Fidelity Foundation$2M 7The Panjandrum Foundation Co C&S Wholes$1M 8Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$1M 9Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$998k 10The Ayco Charitable Foundation$861k

Arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire that draw the most

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

Cooperatives for a Better World$30M

194 other arts and culture organizations$22M

New Hampshire Public Radio Inc$5M New Hampshire Public Broadcasting$4M

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 Tides Center, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. 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
82% 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 Tides Center, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. 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?: Tides Center gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, $29M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New Hampshire?: $73M reached 204 arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire, from 376 funders. 18% 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 regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

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

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; 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.