GrantmakersNew Hampshire

New Hampshire Preservation Alliance

Concord, NH · EIN 22-2603277. Reported 77 grants totalling $1,323,666 to 68 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

68organizations funded
$7,000median reported grant
$1,323,666granted, 2020-2024
7%of grantees funded again the next year
14%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 14% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 7% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $7,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,750 and $9,400; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $190,999. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
59 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Maine Preservation$190,999112020
Preservation League of New York StateAlbany, NY$171,346222023
Preservation Trust of Vermont IncMontpelier, VT$120,650222023
Preservation Trust of VermontBurlington, VT$97,463112021
Sustainable Forest Futures IncConcord, NH$87,793112021
Mill Hollow Heritage Assoc$52,659112020
Preservation League of Ny State$37,382112020
Canaan School DistrictEnfield, NH$33,618112021
Preservation League of Ny StateAlbany, NY$31,749112021
Preservation Trust of Vermont$26,070112020
Mill Hollow Heritage AssocAlstead, NH$23,963112021
Canterbury Shaker Village IncCanterbury, NH$21,250332024
Poore Family Foundation for North Country ConservancyWestford, VT$17,500332024
Hill Center ChurchHill, NH$16,000222023
Gilsum Historical SocietyGilsum, NH$14,500222023
Mascoma Valley PreservationGrafton, NH$14,000112021
Historic Harrisville IncHarrisville, NH$12,950222024
Currier Museum of ArtManchester, NH$12,375112021
Acworth Historical Society IncAcworth, NH$10,415112024
Sustainable Forest Futures Inc$10,207112020
Mascoma Valley PreservationGrafton, NH$10,000112023
Littleton Community CenterLittleton, NH$9,500112024
Audubon Society of NhConcord, NH$9,400112021
Portsmouth Historical SocietyPortsmouth, NH$9,250112023
Canaan School DistrictCanaan, VT$9,240112022
Meredith Historical SocietyMeredith, NH$9,000112023
Portsmouth Women's City ClubPortsmouth, NH$8,505112021
Haverhill Heritage IncHaverhill, NH$8,250112022
Portsmouth Historical SocietyPortsmouth, NH$7,350112021
Canaan School District$7,142112020
Affordable Housing Education and Development IncLittleton, NH$7,000112022
Bethlehem Redevelopment AssocBethlehem, NH$7,000112022
Enfield Shaker Museum$7,000112020
Haverhill Heritage IncHaverhill, NH$7,000112021
Historic Harrisville$7,000112020
Laconia Museum Society IncLaconia, NH$7,000112024
New Hampshire State Grange of the Order of Patrons of HusbandryAntrim, NH$7,000112022
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities IncHaverhill, MA$7,000112024
Star IslandPortsmouth, NH$7,000112021
Star Island CorporationPortsmouth, NH$7,000112023
Sutton Historical Society$7,000112020
Sutton Historical Society IncSutton, MA$7,000112022
The Granite State Childrens AllianceManchester, NH$7,000112024
Willing Workers Society$7,000112020
Claremont Nh Historical Society IncClaremont, NH$6,650112023
Maine PreservationYarmouth, ME$6,340112021
Mount Caesar Union Library AssociationSwanzey, NH$6,300112023
New Hampshire Regional Community Development CorporationLaconia, NH$6,300112023
North Wilmont Union Meeting House$6,300112020
Womans Club of Concord New HampshireConcord, NH$6,300112022
Berlin & Coos Cty Historical Soc$6,125112020
Currier Museum of Art$6,125112020
Hinsdale Historical Society IncHinsdale, NH$5,600112023
Warner House AssociationPortsmouth, NH$5,600112023
Atkinson Historical SocietyAtkinson, NH$5,250112024
Canterbury Shaker VillageCanterbury, NH$5,250112021
Chesterfield Historical SocietyChesterfield, NH$5,250112021
Chosen Vale IncEnfield, NH$5,250112024
Dana Meeting House AssociationNew Hampton, NH$5,250112024
Friends of Bradford Center MeetinghBradford, NH$5,250112021
Haverhill Library AssociationHaverhill, NH$5,250112022
Jackson Historical SocietyJackson, NH$5,250112024
Natl Society of Colonial Dames AmPortsmouth, NH$5,250112021
New Hampshire Farm MuseumMilton, NH$5,250112021
Opera NorthLebanon, NH$5,250112021
The Stratham Historical Society IncorporatedStratham, NH$5,250112022
Upper Saco Valley Land TrustConway, NH$5,250112024
Webster Historical Society$5,250112020

7 of 68 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 68 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.

Arts & Culture
15 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Education
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202014$376,259$7,000
202119$378,056$7,350
202216$155,881$7,000
202315$325,805$8,500
202413$87,665$7,000

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

51% 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.

New Hampshire
$479K
Vermont
$245K
New York
$203K
Massachusetts
$14K
Maine
$6K

Down to the city

Albany, NY
$203K
Montpelier, VT
$121K
Concord, NH
$103K
Burlington, VT
$97K
Portsmouth, NH
$50K
Enfield, NH
$39K

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsCogswell Benevolent Trust5 shared recipientsSamuel P Hunt Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Hampshire.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: Po Box 268, Concord, NH, 03302.

EIN 22-2603277 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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