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Robin Colson Memorial Foundation Tr Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Manchester, NH · EIN 02-6091650. Reported 49 grants totalling $117,350 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$117,350granted, 2021-2024
22organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$585,860assets, 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. Robin Colson Memorial Foundation Tr Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $2,600; the smallest was $750 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
46 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 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 Historical Society of Windham CountyNewfane, VT$13,600442024
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New HampshireManchester, NH$13,000442024
Animal Rescue League of New HampshireBedford, NH$10,000442024
Upreach Therapeutic Riding CenterGoffstown, NH$8,500332023
Concord Community Music School Attn Daniel AcsadiConcord, NH$7,500332024
Draft GratitudeWinchester, NH$7,000332024
Live and Let Live Farm IncChichester, NH$7,000332023
Manchester Community Music SchoolManchester, NH$6,500332023
The Mayhew Program Newfound LakeBristol, NH$6,000442024
Pope Memorial SPCA of Concord Merrimack CountyConcord, NH$5,100222023
Retreat Farm LtdBrattleboro, NH$5,000112021
The Grapevine Family & Community Resource CenterAntrim, NH$4,500332023
Beaver Brook AssociationHollis, NH$4,300222024
New England Kurn Hattin HomesWestminster, VT$4,300222024
Windham County Humane Society Attn Annie GuionBrattleboro, VT$3,000112021
Windham County Humane Society Attn Maya RichmondBrattleboro, VT$3,000112022
Arts in ReachPortsmouth, NH$2,300112022
Society for the Protection of Nh ForestsConcord, NH$2,000112021
Green Mountain ConservancyWest Dummerston, VT$1,500112021
The Grapevine Family and Community Resource CenterAntrim, NH$1,500112024
The Colonial Theatre Group Inc Eric WeisenbergerKeene, NH$1,000112023
The Webster House Attn Blair StairsManchester, NH$750112021

13 of 22 (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 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Animal Welfare
6 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Civil Rights
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$33,250$2,250
202213$33,000$2,500
202313$28,000$2,500
20249$23,100$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.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 78% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Hampshire. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Hampshire
$92K
Vermont
$25K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation12 shared recipientsCogswell Benevolent Trust9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsBank of New Hampshire6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. 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 Robin Colson Memorial Foundation Tr Xxx-Xx-Xxxx'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: 300 Franklin St - Wealth, Manchester, NH, 03101. 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 02-6091650 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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