Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc
Hanover, NH · EIN 27-0646326. Reported 109 grants totalling $2,256,282 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a corporate foundation (NTEE T21).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $21,667; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $204,767. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
15 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $280,945 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite United Way | Manchester, NH | $683,261 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health | Lebanon, NH | $200,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upper Valley Haven Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $129,168 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cover Home Repair Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Vital Communities Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $85,001 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc | Norwich, VT | $71,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc | Quechee, VT | $67,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Headrest Inc | Lebanon, NH | $63,334 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Montshire Museum of Science | Norwich, VT | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Montshire Museum of Science | Norwich, VT | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Womens Information Service Wise of the Upper Valley Inc | Lebanon, NH | $50,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Careers Clic | Hanover, NH | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc | Manchester, NH | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Center for Safer Communities | Claremont, NH | $39,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Twin Pines Housing Trust | White Riv Jct, VT | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Davids House Inc | Lebanon, NH | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Claremont Soup Kitchen Inc | Claremont, NH | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England | Colchester, VT | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Second Wind Foundation | White Riv Jct, VT | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dismas of Vermont Inc | Winooski, VT | $29,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Veterans Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tlc Family Resource Center | Claremont, NH | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Early Care and Education Association | West Lebanon, NH | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Families Flourish Northeast Inc | Manchester, NH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc | Lebanon, NH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northern Stage Company | White Riv Jct, VT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United States Fund for Unicef | New York, NY | $16,653 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vermont Foodbank | Barre, VT | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Listen Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor | Lebanon, NH | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Second Growth Inc | Hanover, NH | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Challenger Learning Center Oforleans Niagara and Erie Counties I | Lockport, NY | $11,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lebanon Opera House Improvement Corporation | Lebanon, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manna Food Bank Incorporated | Pensacola, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society | Londonderry, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Praise Chapel Incorporated | Hartford, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Save Our Allies | Cedar Park, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Space on Main | Bradford, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Willing Hands Enterprises | Norwich, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Precision Museum Association | Windsor, VT | $7,565 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | Greenfield, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Valley Addiction Recovery Inc | White Riv Jct, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Place Inc | Dallas, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First New Hampshire Robotics | Nashua, NH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tiny Town Daycare Inc | West Lebanon, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Waypoint | Manchester, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
30 of 49 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Granite United Way
ASSOCIATE CONTRIBUTIONS, CORPORATE MATCH, AND ASSOCIATE PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS TO BE USED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GRANITE STATE UNITED WAY MISSION - Upper Valley Haven Inc
OPERATING SUPPORT & MOMS IN RECOVERY - Montshire Museum of Science
SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE - Families Flourish Northeast Inc
BRIDGING THE GAP: LONG-TERM RESIDENTIAL SUD TREATMENT SERVICES FOR PREGNANT AND PARENTING WOMEN - Headrest Inc
GRANT FOR SUPPORTING PROGRAMS - Vemont Institute of Natural Science
STEM EDUCATION THROUGH VINS SCHOOL PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $619,735 | $11,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $280,945 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $645,333 | $10,500 |
| 2024 | 37 | $710,269 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
60% of its giving went to organizations in New Hampshire. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Hampshire.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 21 Great Hollow Road, Hanover, NH, 03755.
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