New Hampshire · Nonprofit
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,508 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($453,589). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $447k
What New Hampshire Lakes Association Inc does
Mission
To restore and preserve the health of new hampshire's lakes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy: nh lakes advocates for clean and healthy lakes. This work includes direct lobbying with the state on laws designed to protect the health of new hampshire's 1,000 lakes, and to enable the appropriate state agencies to effectively implement corresponding clean and healthy lake policies and programs. Nh lakes also works at the municipal level to help local partners implement lake-friendly ordinances. In addition, nh lakes performs indirect lobbying by engaging the nh lakes community in grassroots lobbying of the state legislature. Like with all our programs, nh lakes works collaboratively. Nh lakes periodically conducts research to provide the strategic direction and factual basis for its positions.
$40,175 spent$10,100 earned by the program3% of program spendingConservation: nh lakes administers a number of programs, the largest of which is the lake host program (lh). Lh is an educational and courtesy boat inspection program administered by nh lakes in cooperation with local groups to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. Nh lakes hires approximately 270 seasonal lakes hosts who work alongside 284 volunteers who work at 85 of the most highly-used public boat ramps in the state. The nh lakes lake-friendly living program engages property owners statewide to adopt lake-friendly living. Propertyowners work to implement recommendations to earn the coveted lakesmart award.
$899,493 spent$889,911 earned by the program76% of program spendingEducational outreach: every year, nh lakes hosts lakes congress. Lakes congress is nh lakes' annual education, training, and networking event. Lakes congress provides a unique opportunity for 300 or more lake and other natural resource stewards, lake managers, business leaders, and municipal and political leaders to come together to network and learn. At lakes congress, attendees gain knowledge and skills to educate, advocate, and organize to restore and preserve the health of new hampshire's 1,000 lakes and ponds. Nh lakes also presents a series of popular webinars.
$239,080 spent$19,908 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,178,748.
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 2017 to 2018, from $184k to $673k (+265%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $75k → $273k.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 LAKES ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 LAKES ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
80% 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 LAKES ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 40% · 2022 32% · 2023 21% — 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
64% of NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION 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 $542k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 102% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC
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
72% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC?
- NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,743,508 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($453,589). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $1,743,508 in grants to NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $453,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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