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The Hudson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$295kEducation$294kFood & Nutrition$281kHealth$144kCrime & Legal$89kHousing & Shelter$79kYouth Development$75kCivil Rights$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maine Equal Justice$35,000
LearningWorks$35,000
Mano en Mano Hand in Hand$35,000
Waynflete School$25,000
Cobscook Community Learning Center$10,000
Augusta Food Bank$10,000
Maine Family Planning$10,000
Aroostook County Action Program$7,500
Penquis CAP Inc$7,500
Western Maine Community Action$7,500
Heart of Maine Resource Center$7,000
Colby College$5,000
Maine Initiatives$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry: $9k → 11%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $10k → 11%Downeast Community Partners: $10k → 11%Western Maine Community Action: $8k → 14%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $5k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $8k → 15%MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES: $30k → 13%Penquis CAP Inc: $8k → 15%Island Connections: $3k → 11%Bangor Region YMCA: $1k → 15%The Northern Lighthouse Inc: $5k → 15%Kennebec Valley Community Action Program: $3k → 12%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $6k → 13%LearningWorks: $35k → 7%Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine: $5k → 13%Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center: $8k → 7%Preble Street: $6k → 7%Preble Street: $3k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $3k → 7%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.

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.
$933k · 24 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
43

Total granted

$933k
$329k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+15%

Still filing today

83%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentEducationArts & 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

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    6× · 2017–2023 · $185k · revenue +83%
  • WS
    WAYNFLETE SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +28%
  • TS
    TREE STREET YOUTH INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OPPORTTUNITY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $63k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%

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
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
2
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
3
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
4
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
5
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
6
Hancock County Habitat for Humanity

Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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7
Maine Needs Inc

We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…

Human Services
8
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
9
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
10
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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11
Gateway Community Services Maine

Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…

Human Services
12
Maine Primary Care Association

Maine primary care association's mission is to champion and maximize the value of the statewide network of community health centers for the health and well-being of all maine people

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services and the most unlike its peers is Oxford Hills Community Gardens. 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 backsteadyMaine Land and Water Conser…Regional Healthcare SystemsMaine Educational Instituti…Affordable Housing Developm…Recreational Membership Clu…Senior Housing ProvidersMaine Civic InfrastructureIsland Community ServicesAffordable Housing ProvidersDevelopmental Disability & …Family Philanthropic Founda…Cancer Support OrganizationsVeterans Service Organizati…
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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr16%41%35–55yr18%19%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
10%
610/6,402

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

63 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lewiston Public Schools — $85,000 · OtherLewiston Public SchoolsTHE OPPORTTUNITY ALLIANCE — $62,500 · OtherTHE OPPORTTUNITY ALLIANCEMano en Mano Hand in Hand — $60,000 · OtherMano en Mano Hand in HandSpurwink Services Inc — $40,000 · OtherSpurwink Services IncTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $52,500 · OtherTREE STREET YOUTH INCINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $37,500 · OtherINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTERJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $26,500 · OtherAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $22,500 · Other+29 more — $209,618 · Other+29 moreGood Shepherd Food Bank — $185,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food…AUGUSTA FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionLocker Project — $8,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $24,500 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreLEARNINGWORKS — $35,000 · Human ServicesLEARNINGWORKSMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $35,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRAN…Homeworthy — $15,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthySomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $11,250 · Human ServicesSomali Bantu C…DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMMU…LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET — $8,750 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $7,500 · Human ServicesEastern Area Agency on Aging — $7,500 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE — $7,500 · Human ServicesWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $7,500 · Human Services+6 more — $19,000 · Human Services+6 moreWAYNFLETE SCHOOL — $125,000 · EducationWAYNFLETE S…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationNORTHEASTER…The President and Trustees of Colby College — $5,000 · EducationCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $32,500 · HealthWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING — $20,000 · HealthFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $10,000 · HealthMaineHealth — $10,000 · HealthHEALTHY HOMEWORKS — $10,000 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIA — $9,000 · HealthNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $7,500 · HealthAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $37,500 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Justice Partners — $35,000 · Crime & LegalMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $6,000 · Crime & LegalHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine — $60,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC — $7,500 · International
Other$596,118Food & Nutrition$227,500Human Services$180,500Education$145,000Health$99,000Crime & Legal$78,500International$67,500

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 budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $185,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL — $125,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine — $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $52,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER — $37,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS — $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER — $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $26,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR HEALTHY RURAL LIVING — $20,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST — $15,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHomeworthy — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSomali Bantu Community Association of Maine — $11,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBEC COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAUGUSTA FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEcology Education Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY HOMEWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $8,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLocker Project — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCumberland County Food Security Council — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEastern Area Agency on Aging — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MAINERS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $5,118 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHealth Equity Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWayside Food Programs — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Simmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Maine Health Access F…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Fisher Charitable Fou…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Onion FoundationUnited Way Inc
Maine Community Foundation IncME98.3× affinity57 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 · John T Gorman Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Onion Foundation · United Way Inc

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 The Hudson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines