Cogswell Benevolent Trust

The Cogswell Benevolent Trust primarily supports nonprofit organizations in New Hampshire.

The Trust's areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• arts and culture;
• children and youth;
• civic affairs;
• education;
• health;
• human services; and,
• hunger issues, including food banks and soup kitchens.

Grants are provided to the following types of organizations:

• Nonprofits
  Support is provided for nonprofit entities that have a charitable or educational purpose.
• Public Agencies
  Support is provided for educational, religious, fraternal organizations that serve the public without restrictions.
• Other Charitable Institutions
  The Trust supports any organization that has as its primary objective to offer aid, assistance, education, or the betterment of public resources.

Types of support include:

• project and program support;
• equipment; and,
• building renovations.

The Trust rarely considers requests to fund general operating or startup expenses, feasibility studies, endowments, conferences, the production of films or videos, or to eliminate deficits.