New Hampshire · Nonprofit
GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION
GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,874 to it, the largest being Eos Foundation ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Growing Places Early Education and Youth Recreation does
Mission
Growing Places Early Education and Youth Recreation is a not for profit organization, incorporated in the state of new hampshire, to provide quality child care, educational enrichment and youth recreation programs in an effort to support families in raising responsible, respectful and resourceful children. The organization services residents in surrounding communities of lee, durham, barrington, and madbury, new hampshire. A loving, safe and engaging environment is provided where children can explore through play while in the company of attentive and interactive adults. Growing places provides learning situations that are flexible, developmentally appropriate, child directed and mindful differences and individuality. Teachers plan activities and experiences that encourage discovery and learning by stimulating physical, social, emotional and intellectual development and learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Infant/toddler and preschool: both programs are located in lee nh attracting families from barrington, dover, durham, epping, lee, madbury, newmarket, nottingham, portsmouth and rochester. We serve the needs of children ages 6 weeks to 5 years in a loving, safe and engaging environment that provides for a wide variety of early education programs that foster the development of the whole child. We offer stimulating activities for all ages that include pre-reading, language arts, math, science, art, music, movement, cultural diversity, fitness, health and nutrition. We encourage open-ended play and daily exploration of the natural environment providing rich sensory experiences that foster optimal physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.
$876,560 spent$1,077,795 earned by the program62% of program spendingWoodside: the woodside program is located at the woodside apartment complex at the university of new hampshire (unh) in durham serving the needs of children ages 2 years to 5 years. Woodside attracts families from barrington, dover, durham, epping, lee, madbury, newmarket, nottingham, portsmouth, rochester and a diverse group of families from around the world who come to live and study at unh. We offer stimulating activities for all ages that include pre-reading, language arts, math, science, art, music, movement, cultural diversity, fitness, health and nutrition. We encourage open-ended play and daily exploration of the natural environment providing rich sensory experiences that foster optimal physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.
$447,348 spent$474,308 earned by the program32% of program spendingOur school age programs include "our time" before/after school, camp cowabunga and timbernook: these programs operate at moharimet elementary school in madbury, nh attracting families from barrington, dover, durham, epping, lee, madbury, newmarket, nottingham, portsmouth and rochester. Timbernook also operates some sessions in durham, nh. We provide flexible, quality care that offers a variety of enrichment and recreational activities that are designed to meet the unique needs of school-age children 5 years and up. Camp cowabunga is a classic summer camp program and timbernook is an innovative nature-based developmental program designed to foster creativity, imagination and independent play in the great outdoors for children ages 5 years to 13 years.
$88,003 spent$151,009 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,411,911.
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 $1.8M to $2.3M (+28%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 36% · 2022 12% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Amanda Toupin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $155.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION’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
GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION: 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 GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION?
- GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,874 to it, the largest being Eos Foundation ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,874 in grants to GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION?
- Eos Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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