FundersNew Hampshire

Tamposi Foundation

Nashua, NH · EIN 02-0406826. Reported 66 grants totalling $92,450 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$92,450granted, 2021-2024
46organizations funded
21%of grantees funded again the next year
$646,442assets, 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. Tamposi Foundation 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $6,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
27 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 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
Boys and Girls Club of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$7,500332023
Nashua Children's HomeNashua, NH$7,000222024
Boys & Girls Club of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$6,500212024
New Hampshire Institute for Civics EducationConcord, NH$6,500112021
Nh Institute for Civics EducationConcord, NH$6,000222024
Family Promise of SouthernNashua, NH$5,500222023
Find the Cause for Breast CancerFramingham, MA$5,500222023
Greater Nashua Habitat for HumanityHollis, NH$3,750332024
Saint Christopers AcademyNashua, NH$3,500112021
Boys and Girls Club of Central NhConcord, NH$3,000112022
Jenny Fund Golf TournamentNashua, NH$3,000332023
Nackey Loeb School of Communications IncManchester, NH$3,000222024
The Front Door AgencyNashua, NH$3,000222024
Easterseals Veterans CountManchester, NH$2,500112023
Nashua PalNashua, NH$2,000112024
Nashua Soup Kitchen & ShelterNashua, NH$2,000112024
New Hampshire Aviation MuseumLondonderry, NH$2,000222023
World AcademyNashua, NH$2,000112021
Humane Society of Greater NashuaNashua, NH$1,750332023
BridgesNashua, NH$1,000112024
Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA$1,000112024
Family Promise of Southern NhNashua, NH$1,000112024
Greater Nashua Mental HealthNashua, NH$1,000112024
Jenny FundNashua, NH$1,000112024
Marguerite's Place IncNashua, NH$1,000112024
Rivier AcademyNashua, NH$1,000112021
St Joseph Hospital of Nashua NhNashua, NH$1,000112021
Symphony NhNashua, NH$1,000112024
Nashua Senior CenterNashua, NH$900112021
Bishop Guertin High SchoolNashua, NH$650222024
Dempsey CenterLewiston, ME$600112022
The Hundred Club of Nh IncManchester, NH$600322024
Children's Hospital at DartmouthManchester, NH$500112023
Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$500222023
Girls Inc Greater LowellLowell, MA$500112023
Girls Inc of New HampshireNashua, NH$500112024
Nashua Soup KitchenNashua, NH$500112021
Wa Alumni AssociationFort Lauderdale, FL$500112022
Breathe New HampshireManchester, NH$250112022
Dfc Financial AidWashington, DC$250112021
Home Health & HospiceMerrmimack, NH$250112021
Nashua Chamber of CommerceNashua, NH$250112021
Saint Christopher AcademyNashua, NH$250112023
Tylene Kimball ScholarshipSangerville, ME$250112022
Dartmouth Class of 1975Hanover, NH$100112024
Lazarus House MinistriesLawrence, MA$100112021

14 of 46 (30%) 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 21%, 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

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.

Youth Development
8 grants
Human Services
6 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$29,050$1,000
202213$19,100$1,000
202314$16,400$625
202421$27,900$1,000

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. 91% 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
$84K
Massachusetts
$7K
Maine
$850
Florida
$500
District of Columbia
$250

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsJohn P Stabile Family Foundation11 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation10 shared recipientsWe Share a Common Thread Foundation Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Tamposi Foundation'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: 20 Trafalgar Square 310, Nashua, NH, 03063. 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 02-0406826 · 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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