The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation in Concord announced recently it made more than 1200 awards totaling $8.7 million in the first quarter of 2012.
Most of the awards 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 NH Charitable Foundation is the largest grantmaker to nonprofits in the state. It is also the largest non-governmental source of student aid in NH.