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M L Billings Tr Fbo Nh Charities

Johnston, RI · EIN 02-6021132. Reported 41 grants totalling $203,663 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$203,663granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
10%of grantees funded again the next year
$986,203assets, 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. M L Billings Tr Fbo Nh Charities 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
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
GatherPortsmouth, NH$12,500222023
Brigids House of HopeConcord, NH$10,000222022
Hundred Nights IncKeene, NH$10,000222022
New Hampshire Catholic CharitiesManchester, NH$10,000112024
Tapply-Thompson Community Center Bristol Recreation AdvisoryBristol, NH$10,000112023
River Center Family & Community Resource CenterPeterborough, NH$8,000222022
Vision for Creative Housing SolutionsEnfield, NH$8,000112022
Concord Hospital TrustConcord, NH$7,500112024
My Breast Cancer SupportPortsmouth, NH$7,500112023
WaypointManchester, NH$7,500112024
Community Caregivers of Greater DerryDerry, NH$7,000222024
Hospice Help FoundationPortsmouth, NH$7,000112024
Light of Life MinistriesManchester, NH$7,000112022
Triangle Club IncDover, NH$6,000112021
Building Community in New HampshireManchester, NH$5,000112021
Family Promise of Southern NhNashua, NH$5,000112022
Family Voices (nh Association for the Blind)Lexington, MA$5,000112024
Girls Inc of NhManchester, NH$5,000112022
Home Health Care and Community Services IncKeene, NH$5,000112021
New Hampshire Childrens Trust IncConcord, NH$5,000112021
Riverbend Community Mental HealthConcord, NH$5,000112024
Seacoast Family PromiseExeter, NH$5,000112021
The Friends of the New Hampshire Drug CourtsConcord, NH$5,000112021
Nh Association for the BlindConcord, NH$4,500112023
Bethany Chapel Community ChurchManchester, NH$4,000112023
CASA of NhManchester, NH$4,000112022
Peace of Mind Medicaid ConsultantRochester, NH$4,000112021
Aspire Living & Learning IncStratham, NH$3,500112023
See Science CenterManchester, NH$3,000112022
Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy CenterWarner, NH$2,663112024
Community Kitchen IncKeene, NH$2,500112023
Gateways Community ServicesNashua, NH$2,500112022
Krempels CenterPortsmouth, NH$2,500112021
Monadnock United WayKeene, NH$2,500112023
Seacoast Community SchoolPortsmouth, NH$2,500112023
Upreach Therapeutic Equestrian Center Attn Veronica LesterGoffstown, NH$2,500112021

5 of 36 (14%) 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 10%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
12 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202112$55,000$5,000
202211$52,500$5,000
202310$48,500$4,000
20248$47,663$6,000

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. 98% 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
$199K
Massachusetts
$5K

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation26 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsCogswell Benevolent Trust14 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. 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 M L Billings Tr Fbo Nh Charities'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: One Citizens Bank Way JCB115, Johnston, RI, 02919. 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 02-6021132 · 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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