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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ECDYSIS FOUNDATION$75,500
XERCES SOCIETY INC$75,500
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC$75,500
UNIVERITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$75,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$75,500
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC$75,500
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$75,499
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$75,395
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+56%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,499 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE U…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $75,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetAddison County Farm and Field Days Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEastern Apicultural Society of North America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $3,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA HONEY PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION: $2,650 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOZU INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEE GIRL: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMichigan Beekeepers Association: $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN QUEEN INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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 budgetSonrisas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vermont Community…Lintilhac Foundation …Harris & Frances Bloc…High Meadows Fund IncClif Family FoundationImpactassetsincPatagoniaorgHenry P Kendall Found…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Boston Foundation IncNetwork for GoodRaymond James Charita…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization One Hive Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One Hive Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Addison County Farm and Field Days Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Sonrisas Inc: 1% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home