How much does The Hudson Foundation give?

The Hudson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $199,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Hudson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (20%).

Who are The Hudson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good Shepherd Food Bank ($185k), Waynflete School ($125k), Lewiston Public Schools ($85k).

Does The Hudson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hudson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hudson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, John T Gorman Foundation.

Where is The Hudson Foundation based?

The Hudson Foundation is based in ME.

Foundation Dossiers

Maine · Private foundation

The Hudson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 53%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 19; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $6.1M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Hudson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalArts & 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$195k	75%
FY2024	17	$145k	53%
FY2023	16	$137k	56%
FY2022	13	$137k	38%
FY2021	19	$195k	47%
FY2020	17	$193k	59%
FY2019	17	$198k	71%
FY2017	13	$189k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$185,000	6	0%
Waynflete School	$125,000	8	0%
Lewiston Public Schools	$85,000	4	n/a
Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine	$60,000	2	8%
Tree Street Youth Inc	$52,500	4	3%
Spurwink Services Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Aroostook County Action Program	$37,500	5	0%
Intercultural Community Center	$37,500	3	4%
Maine Equal Justice Partners	$35,000	1	n/a
Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services	$35,000	2	2%

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All grantees of The Hudson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$185,000	6	0%
Waynflete School	$125,000	8	0%
Lewiston Public Schools	$85,000	4	n/a
Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine	$60,000	2	8%
Tree Street Youth Inc	$52,500	4	3%
Spurwink Services Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Aroostook County Action Program	$37,500	5	0%
Intercultural Community Center	$37,500	3	4%
Maine Equal Justice Partners	$35,000	1	n/a
Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services	$35,000	2	2%
Learningworks	$35,000	1	1%
Cedars Nursing Care Center	$32,500	2	0%
Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine	$26,500	4	0%
Avesta Housing Development Corporation	$22,500	2	0%
Women for Healthy Rural Living	$20,000	3	2%
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	$15,500	2	1%
Homeworthy	$15,000	2	0%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools	$15,000	2	1%
Northeastern University	$15,000	1	0%
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine	$11,250	2	1%
Ecology Education Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cobscook Community Learning Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Youth and Family Outreach	$10,000	1	1%
Augusta Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity York County Maine	$10,000	2	0%
MaineHealth	$10,000	1	0%
Healthy Homeworks	$10,000	1	2%
Family Planning Association of Maine Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Downeast Community Partners Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program	$10,000	2	0%
Lubec Community Outreach Center Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc	$9,000	1	0%
Healthy Acadia	$9,000	1	0%
Preble Street	$8,750	2	0%
Locker Project	$8,000	1	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine	$8,000	1	n/a
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries	$7,500	1	1%
Western Maine Community Action Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
New Mainers Public Health Initiative	$7,500	1	1%
Penquis Cap Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Eastern Area Agency on Aging	$7,500	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Maine Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Greater Portland Family Promise	$7,500	1	1%
Cumberland County Food Security Council	$7,500	1	1%
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center	$7,500	1	1%
Heart of Maine Resource Center	$7,000	1	n/a
Tree of Life Foundation	$5,118	2	1%
Maine Conservation Alliance	$5,000	1	0%
The President and Trustees of Colby College	$5,000	1	0%
Chip Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Health Equity Alliance	$5,000	1	0%
Trinity Jubilee Center Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Wayside Food Programs	$5,000	1	0%
Maine Access Immigrant Network	$5,000	1	1%
Mainegenral Medical Center	$5,000	1	n/a
The Northern Lighthouse Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Southwest Oxford County Nutrition Inc	$3,000	1	7%
The Opportunity Alliance	$3,000	1	0%
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra	$2,500	1	0%
State of Maine	$2,500	1	n/a
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	$2,500	1	0%
Religious Coalition Against Discrimination	$2,500	1	n/a
Island Connections	$2,500	1	1%
Oxford Hills Community Gardens	$2,500	1	1%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association	$1,000	1	0%
Inquiring Systems Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hudson Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 57.

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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 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

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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About The Hudson Foundation

How much does The Hudson Foundation give?: The Hudson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $199,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Hudson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are The Hudson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good Shepherd Food Bank ($185k), Waynflete School ($125k), Lewiston Public Schools ($85k).
Does The Hudson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hudson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hudson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, John T Gorman Foundation.
Where is The Hudson Foundation based?: The Hudson Foundation is based in ME.