New Hampshire · Nonprofit
NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL
NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,212 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($306,736). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What New Hampshire Humanities Council does
Mission
Since 1974, new hampshire hummanities has brought the power of ideas to people of all walks of life, in every corner of the state. Our programs stimulate minds, strengthen community bonds, bolster struggling organizations, and contribute to our state's civic wealth. We connect the people of nh to culture, history, places, ideas, and to one another. We get nh citizens talking about critical issues such as immigration, the role of religon in american life, and comtemporary constitutional challenges. We invite citizens to reason together in facilitated groups, to learn from and listen to one another. We offer professional development that strengthens the teaching of humanities, k-12 and through connections we support adult liteacy and english language acquisition, welcoming new readers and new americans into a world of books, ideas, and opportunity. Nhhc updated their mission statement in december 2022: new hampshire humanities connects people and ideas by delivering and supporting statew
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Humanities to go (htg), new hampshire humanities (nhh) statewide speakers bureau, allows community organizations to offer high quality lectures to the public at minimal cost. Scholars deliver engaging presentations on a diverse range of topics including nh and us history, historic events, and current issues. By providing funds to host organizations to cover the presenters honorarium, nhh ensures that libraries, nonprofits, and cultural institutions with limited funding and staffing have access to high quality humanities programming.
$107,462 spentof which $107,400 as grants15% of program spendingNew hampshire humanities community project grants allow organizations across new hampshire to create their own public humanities programming. From dynamic lectures and facilitated discussions, to walking tours, oral history workshops, and teacher professional development seminars, these programs create opportunities for participants to explore new knowledge and discuss universal questions. Through grant funded programs, new hampshire humanities supports cultural organizations as they strengthen civic discourse and foster an informed citizenry, fundamentally supporting both our local communities and national democracy.
$489,848 spentof which $89,743 as grants70% of program spendingNew hampshire humanities' connections program creates book discussion series designed to promote english language skills, cultivate conversations about ideas,reinforce family literacy, and support a culture of reading to more than 600 adult learners across the state of new hampshire each year. Using a range of childrens and adult literature, connections provides accessible book discussions for individuals with disabilities, refugees, general adult basic education students, and incarcerated parents. More importantly, it allows participants to see their own stories in literature, to learn about perspectives different from their own, and provides the opportunity to travel to worlds real or imagined through literature.
$88,758 spentof which $18,520 as grants13% of program spendingMuseum on main street - museum on main street, or moms, is a unique alliance of the smithsonian institution traveling exhibition service (sites), state humanities councils across the country, and cultural organizations in small, rural communities. With the support of humanities councils and experts, these americanhistory focused exhibitions give host organizations the opportunity to create their own auxiliary educational programs, cultural activities, and exhibitions that center on local heritage. Perspectives book club - grants 1,800 total expenses 1,800
$9,670 spentof which $8,100 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $695,738.
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.
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 $5.6M to $7.2M (+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: 2017 55% · 2019 59% · 2020 72% · 2021 61% · 2022 60% · 2023 45% · 2024 57% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Marcia Schmidt Blaine Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $333k → $72k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 39% · 2019 48% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 33% — 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
38% of NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
57% of NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL'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 $638k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $857k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8.2M
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 NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,212 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($306,736). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,495,212 in grants to NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $306,736 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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