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Alexander Eastman Foundation

Derry, NH · EIN 02-0222124. Reported 93 grants totalling $2,750,162 to 55 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$2,750,162granted, 2020-2024
55recipients, as named on its returns
48%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.1Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Alexander Eastman Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $35,500; the smallest was $365 and the largest $257,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
19 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Anne's Community OutreachHampstead, NH$433,500222024
The Upper RoomDerry, NH$293,068442024
Greater Derry Community Health ServDerry, NH$265,000332023
Boys & Girls Club of Greater DerryEast Derry, NH$208,835222023
Greater Derry Oral Health CollaboraDerry, NH$173,600222022
Planned Parenthood of Northern NeDerry, NH$160,000442023
Rockingham Nutrition - Meals on WheBrentwood, NH$150,000332023
Community CaregiversDerry, NH$142,000442024
Isaiah 58Hampstead, NH$123,000442023
The Upper Room a Family Resource CenterDerry, NH$80,000112020
Sonshine Soup KitchenDerry, NH$63,250332022
Family Promise of Southern NhNashua, NH$60,000442024
Greater Derry Oral Health CollaborativeDerry, NH$58,750112020
Fbc Food PantryDerry, NH$55,000442024
Rockingham Nutrition and Meals on WheelsBrentwood, NH$40,000112020
Community CrossroadsAtkinson, NH$37,500332022
Center for Life ManagementDerry, NH$35,500112021
Community Caregivers of Greater DerryDerry, NH$35,000112020
Derry Friendship CenterDerry, NH$30,560442024
Catholic CharatiesManchester, NH$25,000112021
Marrison Gerrish Community CenterDerry, NH$25,000112023
Nh Catholic CharitiesManchester, NH$25,000112020
New England Healing Sports AssocNewbury, NH$20,000112021
Nh Hunger SolutionsConcord, NH$20,000112022
New Life MinistriesManchester, NH$20,000112020
YMCA of Greater LondonderryLondonderry, NH$17,500112023
Amoskeag HealthManchester, NH$15,000222024
First Baptist Church of DerryDerry, NH$15,000112020
Friends ProgramConcord, NH$12,600222021
CASA of NhManchester, NH$10,000112020
Clarity Community ConnectionsLondonderry, NH$10,000112020
Sandown Fire DepartmentSandown, NH$7,500112023
Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian CenterGoffstown, NH$7,500112020
Derry Rail Trail AllianceDerry, NH$7,000112021
Pinkerton AcademyDerry, NH$5,697112021
End 68 Hours of HungerFarmington, NH$5,500222023
Town of DerryDerry, NH$5,500112022
Derry Homegrown FarmDerry, NH$5,000112020
NhaadacaConcord, NH$5,000222024
Sanborn Solutions of DerryDerry, NH$4,970112024
Hampstead Fire DepartmentHampstead, NH$4,800222023
Windham Fire DepartmentWindham, NH$4,500112023
Chester Fire DepartmentChester, NH$3,000222024
Londonderry Fire DepartmentLondonderry, NH$3,000112023
Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian CentGoffstown, NH$3,000112021
Derry Fire DepartmentDerry, NH$2,500112024
Greater Derry Track ClubDerry, NH$2,500112022
Jason R Flood MemorialDerry, NH$2,500112023
Seacoast Child Advocacy CenterPortsmouth, NH$2,500112022
Community Fund DrivesDerry, NH$2,039112024
Rotary InternationalDerry, NH$2,000112024
Salvation ArmyDerry, NH$1,878112022
Greater Derry Community Health ServicesDerry, NH$1,250112020
NAMI NhConcord, NH$1,000112024
Chester School StoreChester, NH$365112024

20 of 55 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 48%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
5 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202017$424,500$20,000
202121$701,532$20,000
202218$620,628$17,500
202322$617,068$12,500
202415$386,434$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Alexander Eastman Foundation has 2 of them, worth $270,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Greater Derry Community Health ServicesDerry, NH$198,750
Greater Derry Oral Health CollaborativeDerry, NH$71,250

Where its money goes

Derry, NH
$1.6M
Hampstead, NH
$561K
Brentwood, NH
$190K
East Derry, NH
$100K
Manchester, NH
$95K
Nashua, NH
$60K
Concord, NH
$39K
Atkinson, NH
$38K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsGranite United Way7 shared recipientsSamuel P Hunt Foundation7 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Hampshire.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alexander Eastman Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 4 Birch Street, Derry, NH, 03038. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 02-0222124 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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