FundersNew Hampshire

Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn

Concord, NH · EIN 04-3370159. Reported 64 grants totalling $179,051 to 39 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,530median grant
$179,051granted, 2022-2024
39organizations funded
51%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,318,200assets, 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. Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn 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 $2,530. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $3,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
59 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Front Door AgencyNashua, NH$13,000332024
WaypointManchester, NH$13,000332024
Circle ProgramPlymouth, NH$10,500332024
The Pittsfield Youth WorkshopPittsfield, NH$9,500332024
Overcomers Refugee ServicesConcord, NH$9,000332024
Friends of Nh Drug CourtsConcord, NH$8,000222024
The Granite YMCA - YMCA of ConcordConcord, NH$7,720222024
Concord Hospital TrustConcord, NH$7,400332024
YMCA of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$7,300332024
Girls Inc of New HampshireManchester, NH$7,000222024
Step Up ParentsPortsmouth, NH$5,575222023
Catholic Charities of NhManchester, NH$5,500222023
Family Promise of Greater ConcordConcord, NH$4,650222024
Nh Association for the BlindConcord, NH$4,500222024
See Science Center IncManchester, NH$4,500222024
Catch Neighborhood HousingConcord, NH$4,100112023
Marguerite's PlaceNashua, NH$4,060222024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central NhConcord, NH$4,000222023
Concord Dental Sealant CoalitionConcord, NH$4,000112022
Family Promise of Southern NhNashua, NH$4,000222024
Boys and Girls Club of Greater NashNashua, NH$3,850112022
Brigid's House of HopeConcord, NH$3,500112022
Family Promise of Southern New HampNashua, NH$3,150112022
Friends of New Hampshire Drug CourtConcord, NH$2,700112022
Friends of Tucker Free LibraryHenniker, NH$2,500112024
Riverbend Community Mental HealthConcord, NH$2,500112024
Friends of Concord CrewConcord, NH$2,250112024
Connor's Climb FoundationExeter, NH$2,000112024
Crisis Center of Central NhConcord, NH$2,000112023
Families in TransitionManchester, NH$2,000112024
Friends ProgramConcord, NH$2,000112024
Northeast Organic Farming AssociatiConcord, NH$2,000112022
St Joseph Community Services IncMerrimack, NH$2,000112023
Tapply-Thompson Community Center Bristol Recreation Advisory CouncilBristol, NH$2,000112023
Webster House Children's HomeManchester, NH$2,000112022
Boys & Girls Club of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$1,500112024
Daniel Webster Council Boy ScoutsManchester, NH$1,500112024
Merrimack Valley Day Care ServiceConcord, NH$1,296112023
Twin Rivers Food PantryFranklin, NH$1,000112023

18 of 39 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 51%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 1 grants to individuals totalling $49,567 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
22 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202221$64,485$3,000
202320$57,396$3,000
202423$57,170$2,250

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

Concord, NH
$72K
Nashua, NH
$37K
Manchester, NH
$36K
Plymouth, NH
$10K
Pittsfield, NH
$10K
Portsmouth, NH
$6K
Henniker, NH
$2K
Merrimack, NH
$2K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation25 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsBangor Savings Bank Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation13 shared recipientsAgnes M Lindsay Trust13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,530. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Merrimack County Savings Bank Fdtn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 89 North Main Street, Concord, NH, 03301. 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 04-3370159 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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