New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Foundation for Healthy Communities
Foundation for Healthy Communities (New Hampshire) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,457,447 to it, the largest being MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ($5,818,605). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Foundation for Healthy Communities does
Mission
The mission of the Foundation for Healthy Communities is to build healthier communities for all by leading partnerships, fostering collaboration, and creating innovative solutions to advance health and health care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Vaccine Program was eliminated due to federal grant cuts in March of 2025. Additionally, all field staff positions (6 total) for the NH Navigator program were eliminated in August due to federal grant cuts.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Founded in 1968 as an education and research organization for the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA), the Foundation was reorganized in 1995 to meet the needs of a changing health care system. The Foundation for Healthy Communities is led by a board of trustees with a broad range of expertise that guides its strategic and programmatic efforts. Today, the Foundation is a partnership between New Hampshire hospitals, community organizations and other health care stakeholders that focuses on quality of care and access to health services as the major priorities of work, in alignment with the Foundation's mission of improving total population health for all communities.The Foundation for Healthy Communities is renowned on a state and national level for its ability to engage diverse partners in new, innovative collaborations and to serve as the backbone support for a variety of initiatives that address the health and health care needs of our state. The organization's programs focus on quality improvement initiatives, health promotion and access, as well as health equity and health disparities of care, behavioral health, substance use disorders and many more.In its work with…
$4,428,042 spentof which $713,149 as grants$670,406 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,428,042.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $4.4M (+57%).
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 13% · 2018 16% · 2019 12% · 2020 35% · 2021 11% · 2022 51% · 2023 30% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Foundation for Healthy Communities’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Peter Ames
Executive Director
Board chair
Andrew Watt MD
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $5.3M.
2 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Foundation for Healthy Communities’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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
Foundation for Healthy Communities has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
92% 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 Foundation for Healthy Communities.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of Foundation for Healthy Communities's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
87% of Foundation for Healthy Communities's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Foundation for Healthy Communities's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Foundation for Healthy Communities receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record — $7.7M federal, $120 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.1M
- Department of Commerce$3.6M
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$120
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Foundation for Healthy Communities
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- New Hampshire Hospital Association · exempt
- Health Shared Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for Healthy Communities: 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 Foundation for Healthy Communities?
- Foundation for Healthy Communities (New Hampshire) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,457,447 to it, the largest being MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ($5,818,605). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for Healthy Communities have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $33,457,447 in grants to Foundation for Healthy Communities, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Healthy Communities?
- MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $5,818,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for Healthy Communities 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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