Funding Amount

Up to US $25,000

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

Foundation

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Required status

  • 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status

Not eligible / not funded

  • Not eligible: Routine operating expenses
  • Not eligible: Capital projects
  • Not eligible: Initiatives of governmental agencies that could supplant
  • Not eligible: Discourage public funding

Overview

The Dobles Foundation Grant aims to support childcare initiatives and enhance the needs of children in New Hampshire from 2025 to 2027. With a focus on promoting childcare options for working parents, the foundation encourages proposals that foster educational support for childcare providers, and innovative before and after school programs. Grants may reach up to $25,000, with consideration for multi-year requests in exceptional cases, making this an essential funding opportunity for local charitable organizations.

For Years 2025 Through 2027
The charitable focus of the Dobles Foundation will be CHILDCARE AND ADVANCING NEEDS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN.
The Foundation will consider funding New Hampshire charitable organizations whose mission, in whole or in part, includes:
Promoting childcare options, most particularly for working parents;Supporting the educational needs, training, and expansion of the ranks of childcare providers;Supporting creative efforts to provide before and after school programs, school and summer vacation childcare programs, and emergency care programs for children;Providing support for mentorships, teen job initiatives, and efforts to involve children and teens in community and nonprofit endeavors.
Funding
Grants are contemplated to be one-year distributions of up to $25,000, but in rare instances consideration will be given to worthy and substantiated multi-year requests.

Eligibility

If your organization is a Section 501(c) (3) public charity whose charitable mission, in whole or in part, seeks to accomplish the purposes for which the Foundation is currently making funds available, complete the Dobles Foundation Application and Budget form. f your organization received a grant from The Foundation in the last two years and has not yet provided a grant report discussing how grant funds were spent and their impact, such a report should be completed in advance of making a new grant request for 2025.Geographic Giving Area:State of New Hampshire

Ineligibility

In general, the Dobles Foundation does not fund routine operating expenses, capital projects, or initiatives of governmental agencies that could supplant or discourage public funding.

What Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2025

Grants in 2025
46
Total given
$713K
Median grant
$15K
Range
$2,500–$25K
  • By dollars: New Hampshire 96%, Vermont 2%, Massachusetts 1%. Top recipient cities: Nashua, NH; Manchester, NH; Portsmouth, NH.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 61% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

  • Family Promise of Southern NH · Hudson, NH

    Expansion of childcare

    $25K

  • Boys and Girls Club of Manchester · Manchester, NH

    Comprehensive care for

    $25K

  • Boys and Girls Club of Central and North · Concord, NH

    Funding to help launch new

    $25K

  • Keene Housing Kids Collaborative · Keene, NH

    Funding of out of school

    $25K

  • Seacoast Community School · Portsmouth, NH

    Funding the future program

    $25K

IRS Form 990-PF, 2025. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Nonprofits
  • Child care
  • Daycare
  • After-school

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