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Onion Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
245
Grants FY2024
208
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$625,000
Organizations funded a year
63 to 244
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$64M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Onion Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving242$4.3M28%
FY2023208$3.3M28%
FY2022222$2.9M26%
FY2021244$3.3M32%
FY2020232$3.4M84%
FY201763$438kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$6.4MArts & Culture$5.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$827kHealth$589kCommunity Improvement$589kFood & Nutrition$507kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Onion Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Momentum Conservation$1,188,500574%
Maine Environmental Education Association$362,600516%
Maine Association of Nonprofits$278,500512%
New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc$205,00053%
Maine Audubon Society$173,87551%
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust$156,50055%
New Learning Journey Inc$145,00054%
Portland Ovations$139,00064%
Schoodic Arts for All$129,00068%
Lake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program$122,00065%
Maine GearShare$122,000322%
Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance$121,00031%
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra$119,00051%
Mayo Street Arts$119,000411%
Waterfall Arts$118,00064%
President and Trustees of Bates College$116,50050%
Maine Academy of Modern Music$116,00064%
Trekkers Inc$113,00053%
Palaver Strings Inc$111,50058%
Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc$110,00040%
Midcoast Conservancy$109,00062%
The Theater at Monmouth$105,000510%
Artvan$104,500535%
Bicycle Coalition of Maine$103,00064%
317 Main St Community Center Inc$101,00052%
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc$101,00052%
Portland Museum of Art$100,00050%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$98,50051%
Appalachian Mountain Club$98,00050%
SPACE Gallery$97,00036%
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park$95,00051%
Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed$94,80056%
30 Mile River Watershed Association$94,00067%
Indigo Arts Alliance$94,00044%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$93,50060%
Bangor Symphony Orchestra$93,00062%
Waterville Creates$93,00051%
Celebration Barn Theater$91,500512%
Ecology Education Inc$91,00051%
Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters$90,00051%
Teens to Trails$88,50059%
Boothbay Sea and Science Center$88,000510%
Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education Inc$86,00051%
Maine Conservation Alliance$86,00053%
Center for an Ecology Based Economy$85,000514%
Lakes Environmental Association$85,00052%
Classical Uprising$84,00054%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust$82,00042%
Rippleffect Inc$81,00032%
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust$81,00042%
High Peaks Alliance$80,00057%
Johnson Hall Inc$80,00066%
Abbe Museum$79,50043%
Maine Appalachian Trail Club$79,00055%
Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation$79,00044%
LA Public Theatre Inc$78,00054%
Friends of Baxter State Park$78,00046%
New England Forestry Foundation Inc$77,50021%
Maine Crafts Association$75,900410%
Cobscook Community Learning Center$75,00052%
The Telling Room$75,00053%
A Company of Girls$74,000513%
Opera House Arts$74,00053%
Eastport Arts Center$73,50049%
Pihcintu$73,000524%
Downeast Lakes Land Trust$72,00043%
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$71,00040%
Frenchman Bay Conservancy$70,50043%
Penobscot Theatre Company$70,50052%
La Arts$70,000517%
Chewonki Foundation Inc$70,00040%
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc$69,78842%
Cultivating Community$69,00032%
Inland Woods Trails$68,00036%
Points North Institute$68,00041%
Women for Healthy Rural Living$68,00047%
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc$67,50043%
Wild Seed Project$66,80046%
Pine Tree Society Inc$66,50040%
Aroostook Arts & Education Center Wintergreen Arts Center$66,50049%
Tree Street Youth Inc$66,00052%
Continuum Arts Collective$65,000520%
Maine Tree Foundation$64,00044%
Western Foothills Land Trust$63,50054%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust$63,50031%
The Kennebec Land Trust$62,50043%
Main Street Skowhegan$62,50052%
Maine Community Integration$62,40034%
East Coast Greenway Alliance Inc$61,00032%
Engine Inc$60,500412%
Climate Change for All Educators$60,00022%
A Climate to Thrive$58,00038%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$57,50051%
Apex Youth Connection$56,50034%
Healthy Acadia$56,00030%
Side x Side Inc$56,00034%
Sail Maine$55,50051%
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$55,00031%
Portland Chamber Music Festival$55,00068%
Millinocket Memorial Library$55,00044%
Hearty Roots Inc$55,00058%
Intercultural Community Center$54,50043%
White Pine Programs$54,00035%
Bowdoin International Music Festival$53,50042%
240 Strings$51,500515%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences$50,50040%
The Saco River Theatre$50,50066%
Portland Parks Conservancy$50,000311%
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc$50,00042%
River Tree Center for the Arts$49,50046%
Salt Bay Chamberfest$49,00056%
Maine Philanthropy Center$48,05045%
Maine Huts & Trails$46,00042%
Cathance River Education Alliance$46,000312%
Portland Trails$45,00032%
Illustration Institute$45,00057%
OUT Maine$45,00023%
Creative Portland Corporation$44,75047%
Georges River Land Trust$44,00022%
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust$42,50043%
Watermans Community Center$42,00053%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$41,00050%
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc$40,75041%
Bay Chamber Concerts Inc$40,50022%
Downeast Coastal Conservancy$40,50034%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$40,00030%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School$40,00030%
Wayfinder Schools$40,00052%
PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater$39,50048%
Center for Contemporary Art$39,00032%
Ketcha Outdoors$38,50022%
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark$38,00024%
My Place Teen Center Inc$38,00022%
Khmer Maine$37,50027%
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation$37,000215%
Herring Gut Learning Center$35,5002n/a
Veggies to Table$35,100310%
University of Maine System Inc$35,0001n/a
Maine Inside Out$35,00031%
Ellsworth Community Music Institute$35,000310%
Rural Aspirations Project$35,00024%
Gateway Community Services Maine$35,00023%
Opera Maine$35,00042%
Leaps of Imagination Inc$34,500511%
Waldo Theatre Inc$33,50034%
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts$33,50041%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$33,30020%
Maine Mountain Collaborative$33,04946%
Three Rivers Land Trust$33,00035%
Whyhunger Inc$33,00020%
Daponte String Quartet Foundation$33,00024%
Denmark Arts Center$32,500514%
Great Works Regional Land Trust$31,50022%
Maine Lakes Society Dba Maine Lakes$31,00028%
Laudholm Trust$31,00022%
Maine State Music Theatre$31,00050%
The Climate Initiative$30,00015%
Hirundo Wildlife Trust$30,00036%
Portland Youth Dance$30,000314%
Bethel Area Arts & Music$30,000323%
Belfast Flying Shoes Inc$30,00049%
Quimby Family Foundation$30,00011%
Rangeley Friends of the Performing Arts Inc$30,00034%
Chocolate Church Arts Center$30,00025%
Maine Jewish Film Festival$29,50045%
Independence Association Inc$29,00040%
Medical Care Development Inc$28,50020%
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc$28,50022%
Blue Hill Concert Association$28,5005n/a
Androscoggin Land Trust Inc$28,000319%
Mad Horse Theatre Company$28,00049%
Acadia Center$28,00021%
Outdoor Sport Institute Inc$28,000220%
Freeport Conservation Trust$27,50034%
Northeastern University$27,00010%
Acorn Productions$27,0005n/a
Land in Common Inc$26,00023%
Artwaves$26,000311%
Ubr$25,000210%
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust$25,00022%
Sierra Club Foundation$25,00010%
Maine Association of Conservation Districts$23,00037%
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine$22,50013%
Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust$22,500313%
Maine State Ballet$22,00022%
Maine Humanities Council$22,00030%
Maine Transgender Network Inc$22,0005n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Auburn-Lewiston$21,50021%
Midcoast Symphony Orchestra$21,00059%
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust$20,50023%
Speaking Up for US$20,00016%
The Third Place Inc$20,000110%
Camp Beech Cliff$20,00011%
Seedmoney$20,00022%
Niweskok$20,00012%
Justme for Justus$20,00018%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association$20,00010%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Nami Maine$20,00011%
Kennebec Performing Arts Company$20,0004n/a
Heart of Biddeford$20,00032%
Maine Development Foundation$20,00011%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc$20,00010%
Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc$20,00041%
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr$20,00011%
Ifka Community Services$20,0001n/a
Midcoast Outdoor Leadership Initiative$20,000210%
Maine Climate Action Now$20,00014%
Subcircle Inc$19,500218%
Royal River Conservation Trust$18,50022%
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center$18,50031%
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust$18,00025%
Maine School Garden Network$18,0002n/a
Fit Girls of Wilton Maine$18,0005n/a
The Dance Hall$17,50042%
Meetinghouse Arts$17,50023%
Friends of Quarry Road$17,50027%
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition$17,50023%
Apogee Arts$17,500218%
Friends of Congress Square Park$17,50034%
Blue Hill Community Development$17,0003n/a
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition$16,50030%
Gateway Milbridge$16,00033%
Rural Community Action Ministry$16,00032%
Home Inc$16,00021%
Oxford Hills Community Gardens$15,50015%
Maine Island Trail Association$15,00011%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Maine College of Art and Design$15,00010%
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust$15,00021%
The Summer Camp Inc$15,00012%
Una Voce Chamber Choir$15,000312%
Portland Theater Festival$15,00018%
Our Climate Common$15,00018%
Educare Central Maine$15,00014%
Pineland Farms Inc$15,00010%
Project Freewill$15,00039%
Tear Cap Workshops$15,00027%
Pineland Suzuki School$15,00026%
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center$15,000112%
Tracker Certification$14,500118%
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition$14,00032%
The Theater Project$13,50025%
Albiston Foundation$12,50023%
High Peaks Creative Council$12,5002n/a
Blue Hill Bach$12,50026%
Hancock County Planning Commission$12,45016%
Cultural Resources Inc$12,0002n/a
Greater Franklin Food Council$11,800116%
Maine Farmland Trust$11,00010%
Sunrise County Economic Council$11,00010%
Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children$11,00013%
Resources for Organizing and Social Change$11,00017%
From the Top Inc$11,00010%
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition$10,6002n/a
Sanford-Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust$10,000214%
Kittery Land Trust Inc$10,00012%
Winterkids Education Foundation$10,00011%
Arundel Conservation Trust$10,000117%
Tri-County Mental Health Services$10,00010%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc$10,00018%
Healthy Communities of the Capital Area$10,00011%
Alfond Youth & Community Center$10,00010%
Maine Mental Health Connections Inc$10,00012%
Come Spring Food Pantry$10,00019%
Lights Out Art Gallery$10,0001n/a
Good Food Council of Lewiston-Auburn$10,0001n/a
Friends of the Presumpscot River$10,000114%
Spurwink Services Inc$10,00010%
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust$9,000117%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine$8,50020%
Viles Arboretum$8,50012%
Documentary Songwriters$8,25027%
Speak About It$8,00051%
Penobscot Bay Language School$7,50017%
The Maine Youth Circus$7,5001n/a
Midcoast Community Chorus$7,50016%
Belfast Community Radio Inc$7,5001n/a
Titcomb Ski Educational Foundation$7,500112%
Maine Community College System$7,5001n/a
Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Inc$7,50012%
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$7,50020%
Downeast Family Young Mens Christian Association$7,50010%
Atlantic Harmonies Youth Choirs Inc$7,5001n/a
Islesboro Community Center$7,50012%
Francis Malcolm Science Center Inc$7,500118%
Homeworthy$7,50010%
Bearnstow$7,50014%
YWCA Central Maine$7,50010%
Maine-Wabanaki Reach$7,50022%
Campaign Earth$7,5001n/a
Friends of the Strand Theatre Inc$7,50011%
Tempoart$7,50025%
Bar Harbor Historical Society Inc$7,50012%
New Surry Repertory Theatre and Acting School Inc$7,50015%
Brick Store Museum Inc$7,50011%
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts$7,50015%
Ice Dance International$7,50012%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano$7,00030%
Penobscot River Paddling Trail$7,0002n/a
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments$6,30020%
Wabanaki Womens Coalition Inc$5,50021%
Maine Writers and Publishers Allian$5,50011%
Friends of Bear Mountain Music Hall$5,000118%
College of the Atlantic$5,00010%
iCan Shine Inc$5,00011%
Opera in the Pines Inc$5,000115%
Katahdin Children and FamiliesFoundation$5,00015%
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children$5,00010%
Down East Singers$5,00019%
Mountain Division Alliance$5,0001n/a
Heart of Ellsworth$5,00013%
Portland Conservatory of Music$5,00011%
New England Mountain Bike Association Inc$5,00011%
Natural Resource Education Center at Moosehead$5,0001n/a
Third Sector New England Inc$5,00010%
Isle Theater Company Inc$5,000112%
Everyman Repertory Theatre$5,000112%
Penobscot Marine Museum$5,00011%
TERRA MOTO INC Art At Work$5,000116%
Fair Tide$5,00010%
Mainely Girls$5,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
Food and Medicine - Jobs With Justice Education Fund$5,00011%
Friends of Fort Gorges$5,00015%
Downeast Salmon Federation$5,00010%
Maine Donor Alliance Fund$5,00021%
United Youth Empowerment Services$5,0001n/a
Speedwell Projects$4,50012%
Kennebec Valley YMCA$4,40010%
Swans Island Educational Society$4,00015%
Survivor Speak$4,0002n/a
Maine Needs Inc$4,00020%
St Cecilia Chamber Choir$3,7501n/a
Girls on the Run - Maine$3,5001n/a
Community Change Inc$3,50021%
Support Solutions Inc$3,50010%
Equality Community Center$3,00010%
Toddy Pond Association$3,0001n/a
Boys&Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley$3,00010%
Lamoine Community Arts$3,0001n/a
Frontier Studios$3,0001n/a
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting$3,00030%
Halcyon Music$3,00013%
Ziggurat Theater Company$3,0001n/a
Crowbait Club$2,9501n/a
Friends of Lc Bates Museum$2,5501n/a
Outdoor Afro$2,50010%
Chesterville Center Union Meeting House Inc$2,5001n/a
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory$2,50010%
Maine Woods Forever$2,5001n/a
Maine Rivers$2,5001n/a
New Beginnings$2,50010%
Southern Maine Workers Center$2,50011%
York Community Service Assoc Inc$2,00010%
Church Community Outreach Services Inc$2,00010%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools$2,00010%
Ogunquit Playhouse Foundation$2,00010%
Restorative Justice Institute of Maine$1,50010%
Atlantic Black Box$1,50011%
One Fish Foundation$1,5001n/a
Growsmart Maine$1,00011%
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine$1,00010%
Locker Project$1,00010%
Presente Maine$1,00010%
Timelines Community Inc$1,0001n/a
Inquiring Systems Inc$1,00010%
City of Bangor$8001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 152 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Onion Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMomentum Conservation: $1,188,500 over 5y, 74% of budgetMaine Environmental Education Association: $362,600 over 5y, 16% of budgetMaine Association of Nonprofits: $278,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetNew England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc: $205,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $173,875 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKennebec Estuary Land Trust: $156,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetNew Learning Journey Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPortland Ovations: $139,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSchoodic Arts for All: $129,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetLake Stewards of Maine - Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program: $122,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMaine GearShare: $122,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $121,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPortland Maine Symphony Orchestra: $119,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMayo Street Arts: $119,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetWaterfall Arts: $118,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $116,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music: $116,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetTrekkers Inc: $113,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPalaver Strings Inc: $111,500 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetWabanaki Health & Wellness Npc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $109,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetThe Theater at Monmouth: $105,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetArtvan: $104,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetBicycle Coalition of Maine: $103,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc: $101,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $101,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association: $98,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $98,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $97,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSchoodic Institute at Acadia National Park: $95,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of the Cobbossee Watershed: $94,800 over 5y, 5.5% of budget30 Mile River Watershed Association: $94,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance: $94,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetGulf of Maine Research Institute: $93,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBangor Symphony Orchestra: $93,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWaterville Creates: $93,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCelebration Barn Theater: $91,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetEcology Education Inc: $91,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $90,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTeens to Trails: $88,500 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetBoothbay Sea and Science Center: $88,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetDowneast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education Inc: $86,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Conservation Alliance: $86,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCenter for an Ecology Based Economy: $85,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetLakes Environmental Association: $85,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetClassical Uprising: $84,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBlue Hill Heritage Trust: $82,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME236.7× affinity289 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Davis Family Foundation · Quimby Family Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Onion Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Onion Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Onion Foundation

How much does Onion Foundation give?
Onion Foundation reported 245 grants totaling $4,380,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 244 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Onion Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (29%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
Who are Onion Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Momentum Conservation ($1.2M), Maine Environmental Education Association ($363k), Maine Association of Nonprofits ($279k).
Does Onion Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Onion Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Onion Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust.
Where is Onion Foundation based?
Onion Foundation is based in ME.

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 525 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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