New Hampshire · Nonprofit
BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS
BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,536 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($240,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $350k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $696k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Bear-Paw Regional Greenways does
Mission
Bear-Paw Regional Greenways is a land trust with a mission to permanently conserve a network of lands that protect the water, wildlife habitat, forests and farmland of our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
LAND PROTECTION AND STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM Completed conservation easements. Secured funding for land protection project transaction costs and stewardship contributions. Secured grants for conservation easement purchase projects. Met with private landowners interested in considering conservation options for their properties. Board members and staff regularly met with conservation commissions to collaborate on land protection projects and planning. Board members, volunteers and staff completed conservation easement monitoring on all conservation easements.
$184,210 spent$5,854 earned by the program81% of program spendingOUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM Published newsletters and distributed them to members, landowners, local officials and area residents. Held an Annual Meeting in February for members, landowners, local officials and area residents. Sponsored, attended or provided conservation information at community events. Sent out letters describing our land conservation efforts and the conservation issues to members, area residents and local landowners. Hosted workshops and fieldtrips on land conservation planning, land conservation issues and other natural resource topics for members, landowners, local officials and area residents. Maintained our website with current information on the organization and land protection efforts.
$41,902 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $3.9M (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 40% · 2019 33% · 2020 35% · 2021 8% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Krystal Balanoff
Executive Director
Board chair
Bonnie Beaubien
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $214k → $101k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 97% · 2019 44% · 2020 55% · 2021 67% · 2022 28% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $294k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS?
- BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,536 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($240,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $695,536 in grants to BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $240,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing