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New Hampshire's nonprofit organizations help make New Hampshire a great place to live.
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of New Hampshire citizens, the Foundation awards thousands of grants every year to organizations doing critical work in our communities, and improving quality of life for all. Together, we are doing great things.

What we fund

Through our competitive grant programs, we fund programs and operations of qualified nonprofits working in the areas of health and well-being, civic engagement, education, economic development, environmental protection and arts and culture.

We also make grants to nonprofit partners working in specific areas of strategic Foundation priorities – like fighting substance use disorders and increasing youth opportunity.

And we work closely with generous donors to connect them with funding opportunities that match their areas of interest in fulfilling community needs. Please create an organizational profile on GrantSource to help us connect your work with donor interest, and to have funding needs listed on Greater Giving, our online giving platform for donors.

Explore our grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations

  • Community Grants Program - Express Grants

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    This competitive grants program awards project support (a set of activities conducted during a specified period of time and with clear deliverables that further the organization’s mission or build organization capacity) of $5,000 or less to eligible organizations.

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  • Community Grants Program - Unrestricted Grants

    Deadline: August 1, 2019

    This competitive grants program awards unrestricted grants that support an organization’s general operations as a whole rather than a particular project or capacity-building effort. This program was formerly called ‘Operating Grants.’

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  • Entrepreneurs' Fund of New Hampshire AMP Grant Program

    This program will not be accepting applications in 2019.

    The Entrepreneurs’ Fund of New Hampshire’s AMP NH grants support novel, entrepreneurial and innovative ideas to solve pressing problems and critical issues facing New Hampshire.

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  • Mary Gale Foundation

    Deadline: September 9, 2019

    The Mary Gale Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that supports housing, health and other in-home services and programs for low-income women age 65 and older living in the Greater Manchester area.

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  • Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund - Empower Coös Youth Grants Program

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    This competitive grant program supports specific projects, operating expenses, planning, evaluation and technical assistance for programs that benefit Coös County, NH and Essex County, VT and surrounding communities in New Hampshire and Vermont. This grant program awards support of $10,000 or less to eligible organizations.

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  • Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund - Local Grants Program

    Deadline: July 18, 2019

    The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund supports projects in Coös County, NH and bordering communities in the United States and Canada that focus on community revitalization. This grant program awards support of $20,000 or less to eligible organizations.

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  • Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund - Large Grants Program

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund supports projects in Coös County, NH and bordering communities in the United States and Canada that focus on community revitalization. This grant program awards support of $20,001 to $300,000 to eligible organizations.

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  • Nonprofit Loan Program

    Deadline: Rolling

    The Nonprofit Loan Program is focused on strengthening nonprofits, helping them have greater impact in the community, through sound financial management and greater access to working capital.

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  • Upper Connecticut River Mitigation and Enhancement Fund

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The fund supports restoration, protection, and enhancement of the river, wetlands, and shore lands within the Connecticut River watershed upstream of the confluence of the White River and the Connecticut River at White River Junction, VT and West Lebanon, NH.

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  • Wellborn Ecology Fund

    Deadline: July 22, 2019

    The Wellborn Ecology Fund is dedicated to increasing environmental and ecological science knowledge in the Foundation’s Upper Valley Region.

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Grants for teachers, artists and public officials

  • Caroline and Martin Gross Fellowship

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The Caroline and Martin Gross Fellowship honors individuals for their extraordinary work in public service.

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  • Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    Each year, the Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical awards a year-long leave of absence to an exceptional New Hampshire public school teacher.

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  • David M. Brooks Music Fund

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The David M. Brooks Music Fund supports music education in New Hampshire’s public schools.

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  • Louise Tillotson Teaching Fellowship

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The Louise Tillotson Teaching Fellowship program strives to raise public awareness about the value of excellence in education and to retain good public teachers in the New Hampshire’s North Country and in Essex County, VT.

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  • Louise Tillotson Teaching Professional Development Scholarship

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The Louise Tillotson Teaching Professional Development Scholarship offers North Country and Essex County, VT teachers scholarships for continuing education and professional development.

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  • Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund - Community Practitioners Network

    Please check back for 2020 application deadline.

    The Community Practitioners Network is an 18-month program designed to advance the resiliency of Coös County and surrounding communities in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine by cultivating the leadership and networking skills of 15 talented local residents.

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  • Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund - Empower Coös Youth Grants Committee Member

    Deadline: May 6, 2019

    Designed by high school students, the Empower Coös Youth Grants Program, convenes youth in grantmaking, deepens connection to place and develops leadership skills.

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  • Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant

    Deadline: April 30, 2019

    The Artist Advancement Grant Program provides financial support to individual visual artists and craftspeople in the Piscataqua Region to promote their artistic growth.

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Nonprofit Resources

Webinars and presentations

Grantee press kit

CEP Grantee Perception Survey

Final and interim grant reports

Fiscal sponsorship agreement form

Grant change request form

 

Guidance for tracking and reporting lobbying grants

New Hampshire Eligibility Checklist

Strategic Plans



Grants in Action

Asuka Thompson (right) with her daughter, Athena, and teacher Lien Harris. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Community happens when new neighbors become old friends

The Dover Adult Learning Center serves about 1,000 students a year in its core classes — from high school diploma and equivalency classes to English for speakers of other languages, adult literacy, computer skills and career pathways

Justin Milliken laughs with Sue-Ellen Provenchia, a licensed nurse assistant at Cedarcrest. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Cedarcrest Center helps kids and families thrive

Center for children with disabilities in Keene has been caring for children with complex needs for more than a half-century

The Laconia Middle School Band plays for local elementary school students. (Courtesy photo.)

New instruments headed to Laconia, Manchester

Grants from the David M. Brooks Music Fund are sending new cellos, trumpets, trombones, flutes, violins and more to children in Manchester public schools; and guitars, keyboards, ukuleles and xylophones to public-school children in Laconia

Kristin Lizotte, a teacher at Kearsarge Regional Elementary School, has been awarded the 2019 Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

The Power of Many: giving and working together for NH

A few examples of recent grants making a difference in communities around the Granite State: Portsmouth Music and Arts Center builds community through the arts; Christa McAuliffe's legacy continues; Kids in Chichester get new playground equipment; Empower Coös Youth Grant Committee makes its first round of grants; Veterans get support and services; History is preserved in Manchester; The largest remaining dairy farm in the Monadnock region is conserved

Teacher Martha Sharp (left) works with Lincoln and behavior support coach Stephanie Therrien at Easterseals Child Development Center in Manchester. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

All-in for the youngest among us

Project LAUNCH, a coalition of nonprofits and public agencies, has been building a coordinated system of services and care to make sure that every child in Manchester has the social and emotional supports she needs to learn, thrive and grow: developmental screening that leads to earlier interventions; professional coaching and development for early childhood teachers; making behavioral health a routine part of pediatric visits; parenting classes and home visiting; a rapid-response team for children who have been affected by trauma.

Mobile STEM Lab delivers ‘awesome’ to North Country students

White Mountain Science, Inc.'s Mobile STEM Lab crisscrosses the North Country to bring STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics — programs to students who may not otherwise have the opportunity to dive into this modern curriculum. The mobile lab was launched with support from the Charitable Foundation's Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund

Coös Youth Grantmaking program awards first grants

Tilly Players, after-school program at Boys & Girls Club of the North Country and After School Kids in Whitefield receive support from youth-led program of the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund

Together, we are making progress for our kids

The Charitable Foundation invested $17.5 million to increase opportunities for young people through its New Hampshire Tomorrow initiative last year. Read our 2018 progress report

Kristin Lizotte, a teacher at Kearsarge Regional Elementary School, has been awarded the 2019 Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Kristin Lizotte awarded 2019 Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical

Kearsarge Elementary School teacher plans to make the traditional three R’s more meaningful to young students by exposing their teachers to three C’s ­— creating, collaborating and connecting

Fat-bike racers crossing Moose Brook in Gorham, NH. (Photo by Joe Klementovich.)

Building a mountain-biking mecca in Gorham

The Coös Cycling Club is providing outdoor recreation opportunities for local residents, drawing tourists, and contributing to economic revival in the Gorham area. The group has now joined forces with the Borderlands Trail System, which is promoting trail networks and communities across the Northern Forest region. Grants from the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation support this work and other efforts to promote sustainable economic development for the North Country

Acres and acres of corn are grown for silage at the Chickering Farm, now protected in partnership with the Monadnock Conservancy. (Photo courtesy of Monadnock Conservancy, © Stacy Cibula.)

Monadnock region’s largest dairy farm now protected

The 350-acre Chickering Farm, on the Connecticut River in Westmoreland, will remain intact in perpetuity

William Evatte receiving care at Coös County Family Dental. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Meeting a community’s dental needs

Coös Family Dental, on Berlin's Main Street, is open to anyone in the community who needs care. The clinic is filling a need that is particularly acute in the North Country, where more than two in ten adults have not seen a dentist in the past five years, and very few dental practices are accepting new Medicaid patients. The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has supported the clinic with a grant to upgrade equipment


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  • Wendy Cahill
  • Senior Community Grants Associate