Lane and Elizabeth C. Dwinell Charitable Trust
/OVERVIEW: The Lane and Elizabeth C. Dwinell Charitable Trust supports New Hampshire nonprofits in the areas of arts, culture, humanities, community improvement, capacity-building, education, healthcare, and human services.
FUNDING AREAS: Arts, culture, humanities, community improvement, capacity building, education, healthcare, human services
IP TAKE: Pitch a local idea about how to decrease healthcare costs for low-income New Hampshire residents or anything addressing local basic needs. When writing an application, keep in mind that this is a conservative-leaning organization. Grantmaking only supports organizations based in or servicing New Hampshire.
PROFILE: Established in 1997, the Lane and Elizabeth C. Dwinell Charitable Trust is a private foundation that is focused on the state of New Hampshire. Lane Dwinell was a two-term Republican governor of New Hampshire in the 1950s and also a member of the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. He was previously a businessman based in Lebanon, New Hampshire and passed away from heart failure in 1997. His wife, Elizabeth Dwinell was a Granite State Free Press reporter, actress for the Dartmouth Players, and member of the Lebanon Women’s Club, Daughters of Colonial Wars, and New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America. Together, the couple was involved in local charitable efforts in Lebanon and throughout their home state, New Hampshire. The Bank of America’s Massachusetts office manages the trust’s grantmaking, which funds arts, culture, humanities, community improvement, capacity-building, education, healthcare, and human services.
This funder supports a broad range of nonprofit efforts throughout New Hampshire. It provides program/project support, general operating support, and capital support. However, it prioritizes groups that highlight the “liberal bias of the media.” The foundation regularly supports efforts to decrease the cost of healthcare in the form of grants to hospitals, clinics, medical foundations, and medical schools. Otherwise, it does not commonly support health efforts unrelated to this purpose. Foundation grants to Dartmouth College are limited to the Hopkins Center, Hood Museum, and Amos Tuck School. Past local support has gone to the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, West Central Behavioral Health, and the Ledyard Charter School of Lebanon.
Foundation grants often range between $2,500 and $20,000. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its Foundation Center grant history. The funder gives special preference to groups that serve the city of Lebanon and the Upper Valley Region. Grants are typically for one-year periods, although the funder considers multi-year support. Groups can only submit one request for funding per year, and the foundation rarely funds the same projects for more than five years in a row.
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits, and Bank of America consults a local advisory committee to select grant recipients. The annual application deadline is August 15. Grantseekers must use the Bank of America online system to apply for a grant. Direct general questions to the staff at ma.grantmaking@ustrust.com or 866-778-6859.
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