The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation announced it made more than 1200 awards totaling $8.7 million in the first quarter of 2012.
Most of the awards this quarter ‘578 grants totaling nearly $5.2 million ‘came from funds established to benefit specific nonprofits or specialized grant programs, such as the Wellborn program for environment, ecology and place-based education in the Upper Valley. More than $2.5 million from a total of 395 grants were directed through donor advised funds to support the arts, education, basic needs and a range of other programs important to foundation donors. Students received more than $1 million in aid during the quarter.
Other than the government, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest grant maker to nonprofits in the state. It is also the largest non-governmental source of student aid in New Hampshire.
Concord, NH. 4.11.2102.
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation awards more than $8.7 million in first quarter of 2012
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