New Hampshire · Nonprofit
CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION
CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,239,214 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,025,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Cheshire Health Foundation does
Mission
Cheshire Health Foundation cultivates and stewards charitable support to advance the health and wellness mission of cheshire medical center. The Cheshire Health Foundation provides management of board-designated, special-purpose, building, and endowment funds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cheshire Health Foundation raises funds to support the health and wellness mission of Cheshire Medical Center. For Fiscal Year 2025, Medical Center senior leaders and Trustees collaborated with Foundation Trustees to determine strategic needs for the year. The support of the purchase of second Linear Accelerator for Radiation Oncology services in Cheshire's Cancer Center was selected as the strategic funding priority for the FY 2025 Annual Fund. The total cost of the Linear Accelerator will exceed $2 million dollars, and $520,432 was raised through the Annual Fund and fundraising events. The Foundation also received gifts and pledges from donors towards their $42 million Capital Campaign which was still in the "Silent Phase." The Capital Campaign funds will provide the (Continued on Schedule O)
$8,213,882 spentof which $8,056,967 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,213,882.
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 $31M to $79M (+155%).
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.
98% of CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Joseph L Perras MD
Trustee/CEO/president ex-officio
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $128k → $344k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION’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
CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 43% · 2021 49% · 2022 56% · 2023 25% — 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
67% of CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
67% of CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION'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 $3.3M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Cheshire Health Services · exempt
- Cheshire Medical Center · exempt
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health · exempt
- Keene Health Enterprises · corp_trust
- Keene Health Realty · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,239,214 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,025,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $10,239,214 in grants to CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESHIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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