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One Hive Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
31
States reached
$192k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Education$1.8MEnvironment$589kFood & Nutrition$375kAnimals$312kPhilanthropy$262kScience & Tech$208kPublic Benefit$165kCommunity Improvement$89kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
$2,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$191,810
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION$160,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$159,010
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$150,000
NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT$145,500
VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND INC$120,500
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$100,000
UNIVERITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$75,500
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC$75,500
XERCES SOCIETY INC$75,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$75,500
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC$75,500
ECDYSIS FOUNDATION$75,500
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$75,499
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$75,395
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGE INC: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 16 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$2.4M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+58%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsEmploymentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $637k · revenue +27%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $330k · revenue +20%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $226k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • PA
    PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Pollinator Partnership

Pollinator Partnership (P2) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization- the largest organization in the world dedicated exclusively to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and…

Environment
3
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Hudson Carbon Research Foundation in

Hudson carbon is dedicated to catalyzing the adoption of regenerative organic agriculture by advancing our scientific understanding of its practices and systems, and their potential to radically reverse climate change and environmental…

Environment
5
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
6
Grow More Foundation

Grow More Foundations mission is to provide education, promote awareness and establish transparency of biotechnological innovations in agriculture. Unlike technological and biomedical advances, biotechnological innovations are not so…

Food & Nutrition
7
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Organic Growers Research and Information Sharing N

To facilitate the developement of sustainable food systems by helping groweres to increase their knowledge of agro-ecosystems management and utilization of local and regional marketing strategies.

Food & Nutrition
10
Save the Bee

Save the bee works to protect honey bee health by increasing awareness of the critical role honey bees play in our food supply; funding scientific research regarding the causes of declining bee populations and solutions to enhance bee…

Animals
11
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Queen Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsLocal History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $636,568 · EducationCornell UniversityUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL C…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $209,128 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $75,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $75,395 · Education+3 more — $66,500 · EducationVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC — $162,500 · EnvironmentVERMONT PUBLIC INTERES…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $150,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFE…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $140,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUND…POLLINATOR STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL INC — $116,500 · EnvironmentPOLLINATOR STEWARDSHIP…THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR…VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $53,900 · EnvironmentVERMONT NATURAL RESOUR…Beyond Pesticides — $40,500 · EnvironmentBeyond Pesticides+1 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $191,810 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVE…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $80,500 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOC…THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $75,499 · OtherTHE PENNSYLVANIA STA…OUT IN THE OPEN — $31,000 · OtherECDYSIS FOUNDATION — $75,500 · OtherECDYSIS FOUNDATIONRHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY — $50,500 · OtherRHODE ISLAND NATURAL…CEDAR CIRCLE FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $41,311 · OtherCEDAR CIRCLE FARM AN…+53 more — $137,971 · Other+53 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $260,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $3,720 · Community ImprovementNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $225,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureXERCES SOCIETY INC — $85,500 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy — $69,697 · AnimalsFoundation for the Preservation of Honeybees — $66,600 · AnimalsVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $75,500 · EmploymentINTERVALE CENTER INC — $18,224 · EmploymentGOLDEN PRAIRIE HONEY FARMS CORPORATION — $10,000 · Employment
Education$1,543,091Environment$746,400Other$684,091Community Improvement$263,720Arts & Culture$226,000Animals$221,797Employment$103,724

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $636,568 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $330,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $225,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $209,128 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC — $162,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $150,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $140,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOLLINATOR STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL INC — $116,500 over 2y, 62% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $85,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $75,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION — $75,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $75,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $75,395 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $69,697 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for the Preservation of Honeybees — $66,600 over 2y, 45% of budgetVERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $53,900 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY — $50,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCEDAR CIRCLE FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $41,311 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBeyond Pesticides — $40,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $18,224 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDEN PRAIRIE HONEY FARMS CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEastern Apicultural Society of North America Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAddison County Farm and Field Days Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $3,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HONEY PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION — $2,650 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHERN QUEEN INITIATIVE — $2,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetWOZU INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEE GIRL — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMichigan Beekeepers Association — $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,750 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKANSAS HONEY PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION — $1,522 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPROJECT APIS M INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonrisas Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · Henry P Kendall Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization One Hive Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc51% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont31% of income from government
  • Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc30% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc22% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Addison County Farm and Field Days Inc5% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc4% of income from government
  • Sonrisas Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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