New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Design Challenge Network Inc
Design Challenge Network Inc (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being LOCKHART VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Design Challenge Network Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Clayton Baker Trustshared funders
- Ingenuityne Incportfolio match
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Design Challenge Network Inc’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
Design Challenge Network Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
Design Challenge Network Inc draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Clayton Baker Trustshared fundersMD · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Ingenuityne Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Region Chapter of Simportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Newwave Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edu21c Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dassault Systemes US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McChord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Codeorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Design Challenge Network Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
0%
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 Design Challenge Network Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Design Challenge Network Inc?
- Design Challenge Network Inc (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being LOCKHART VAUGHAN FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Design Challenge Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,000 in grants to Design Challenge Network Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Design Challenge Network Inc?
- LOCKHART VAUGHAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Design Challenge Network Inc 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing