New Hampshire · Nonprofit
NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME
NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME (New Hampshire) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,076,271 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($125,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Nashua Children's Home does
Mission
The Nashua Children's Home provides residential care and educational services to nashua, nh area children who cannot live at home or attend public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential program - a comprehensive care and service program for new hampshire children and families. The residential program offers a wide range of recreational and social activities on and off grounds. Children are encouraged to utilize the community's recreational and cultural resources.
$4,754,877 spent$5,503,662 earned by the program84% of program spendingEducational program - provides services for students with educational disabilities between the ages of 7 and 15. The educational program is designed for students who cannot be appropriately educated in less intensive programs within the public schools. The educational program is certified by the new hampshire state department of education.
$678,899 spent$681,615 earned by the program12% of program spendingIndependent/ transitional living program - assists young adults in transitioning into self-sufficiency and prevents long-term dependency on the social service system. Housing is provided at a nominal rent, along with continuing staff support and guidance for young adults that have exited the child-protective or juvenile justice system.
$256,659 spent$50,760 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,690,435.
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 $5.5M to $7.4M (+35%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 2% · 2023 9% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME’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
Matthew Fentross
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $21k → $120k.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 39% · 2019 49% · 2020 33% · 2021 18% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% — 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
52% of NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $360k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: 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 NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME?
- NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME (New Hampshire) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,076,271 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($125,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,076,271 in grants to NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME?
- COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME 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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing