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Who funds recreation and sports 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.

$75M
granted
302
organizations
18%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of recreation and sports in New Hampshire

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$22M2New Hampshire Charitable Foundation$7M3Special Olympics Inc$3M4University of Notre Dame du Lac$3M5Exxonmobil Foundation$3M6The San Francisco Foundation$2M7National Philanthropic Trust$2M8Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$2M9Global Impact$2M10Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$2M

Recreation and sports organizations in New Hampshire that draw the most

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

292 other recreation and sports organizations$25M
Grassroot Soccer Inc$25MSpecial Olympics New Hampshire Inc$6MGranite State Adaptive$4MNh Lakes Region Pickleball Club$2MFriends of Oakhill$2M

How to find recreation and sports funders in New Hampshire

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in New Hampshire

    The funders giving the most to recreation and sports in New Hampshire are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Special Olympics Inc. A funder already writing recreation and sports checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the recreation and sports 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. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    82% of recreation and sports money in New Hampshire comes from funders elsewhere, so national recreation and sports funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Hampshire.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a recreation and sports nonprofit in New Hampshire?
Start with the funders already giving to recreation and sports in New Hampshire, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Special Olympics Inc. Then look at who funds the recreation and sports organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Hampshire from out of state.
Who is the largest recreation and sports funder in New Hampshire?
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to recreation and sports organizations in New Hampshire, $22M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to recreation and sports in New Hampshire?
$75M reached 302 recreation and sports organizations in New Hampshire, from 512 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 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.