Dobles Foundation Grant
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
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Child care
- Daycare
- After-school
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