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Fp Worthen Foundation

Nashua, NH · EIN 04-6050139. Reported 66 grants totalling $246,906 to 32 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,500median grant
$246,906granted, 2021-2024
32recipients, as named on its returns
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,460,152assets, 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. Fp Worthen 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 $3,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
25 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 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
Nashua Soup KitchenNashua, NH$20,500442024
Peabody Main StreetNewton, KS$20,000222022
American Red CrossWashington, DC$15,000222024
Boys & Girls Club of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$15,000222024
The Nature Conservancy in NhConcord, NH$15,000442024
The Derryfield SchoolManchester, NH$14,750332023
Centros Sor Isolina FerreSan Juan, PR$14,500222024
Hurricane Island Outward Bound SchoolCamden, ME$13,500332024
Windrush FarmNorth Andover, MA$13,500332024
Holy Trinity Classical Christian SchoolBeaufort, SC$13,000222022
Mindfulness Director InitiaveWrentham, MA$10,000222022
The Sunflower TheatrePeabody, KS$10,000112024
Greater Nashua Habitat for HumanityHollis, NH$9,500222024
New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association Dba Clean Energy NhConcord, NH$9,500442024
Brooks SchoolNorth Andover, MA$7,000442024
Central Kansas Community FoundationNewton, KS$6,650112023
Barre Center for Buddhist StudiesBarre, MA$6,250222024
Harbor CareNashua, NH$5,500222024
Harbor HomesNashua, NH$5,500112021
Boys & Girls Club of Greater LowellLowell, MA$4,000112021
Move for Jenn FoundationCharlotte, NC$3,500112024
United Methodist ChurchNashua, NH$3,350112023
Dublin School IncDublin, NH$2,000442024
New Hampshire Food BankManchester, NH$2,000112021
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England IncColchester, VT$2,000442024
Middlesex SchoolConcord, MA$1,000112022
NfsNewnan, GA$1,000112024
Saint Michael's CollegeColchester, VT$1,000222022
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$906112024
Andy's Summer Playhouse IncWilton, NH$500112021
Rascals RescueHadeesville, SC$500112024
University of Washington RowingWoodinville, WA$500112024

19 of 32 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 37 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
13 grants
Environment
7 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Religion
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$60,000$3,000
202212$35,000$2,250
202316$81,000$4,625
202420$70,906$4,000

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.

Where its money goes

42% of its giving went to organizations in New Hampshire. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New Hampshire
$103K
Massachusetts
$42K
Kansas
$37K
District of Columbia
$15K
Puerto Rico
$14K
South Carolina
$14K
Maine
$14K
North Carolina
$4K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsFidelity Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,500. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fp Worthen Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 3 East Spit Brook Road, Nashua, NH, 03060. 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 04-6050139 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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