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FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC

FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,310 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($41,775). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$113k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$112k
Net assets
$864k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Friends of Centennial Hall Inc does

Mission

To preserve, renovate, and maintain an historic schoolhouse building for use by the the public and private individuals for community activities, and promotion of visual and performing arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Own and maintain historic property for public use, with ongoing extensive renovations. Leased space for instructions in music, dance, art and similar performing arts. Hosted community events including concerts, holiday tree lighting, old home days.

    $119,217 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Own and maintain historic property for public use, with ongoing extensive renovations. Leased space for instrucitons in music, dance, art and similar performing arts. Hosted community events including concerts, holiday tree lighting and old home days.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,217.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($630k)2019 Revenue 334 ($326k) Expenses 74 ($51k) Net assets 147 ($924k)2020 Revenue 141 ($137k) Expenses 65 ($45k) Net assets 163 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 175 ($170k) Expenses 187 ($129k) Net assets 169 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 54 ($53k) Expenses 117 ($81k) Net assets 164 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 221 ($215k) Expenses 299 ($206k) Net assets 164 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 109 ($106k) Expenses 380 ($262k) Net assets 139 ($875k)2025 Revenue 116 ($113k) Expenses 180 ($124k) Net assets 137 ($864k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (180)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $631k to $925k (+47%).

$631k
$925k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.0M
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2019 72% · 2020 60% · 2021 4% · 2022 13% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’18
$275k
’19
$92k
’20
$42k
’21
−$28k
’22
$9k
’23
−$156k
’24
−$11k
’25
5.1
months of
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.

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Listed66634444
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·0030001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $10k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL 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

FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC.

37%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

55% of FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC'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 $51k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.

NH
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC's revenue grew 16% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC?
FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,310 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($41,775). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $112,310 in grants to FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC?
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $41,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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