Maine · Nonprofit
Niweskok
Niweskok (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,327,877 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($485,075). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Niweskok does
Mission
Niweskok, a collaboration of food and medicine providers, rematriates Wabanaki life ways by engaging with our kinship responsibilities and reclaiming traditional foods and healing. We prioritize restoring the Penobscot Bay region as a Wabanaki food hub.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wabanaki Rematriation School (WRS) engages Wabanaki families in rematriating our foodways and feeding our communities. At the root of each community harvest, workshop, and set of curriculum materials we develop is the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge through Wabanaki languages, history, stories, ecology, and climate adaptation. WRS served 530 Wabanaki community members and provided 45 program service days in 2024.
$1,912 spent100% of program spendingAlihpewakanal, our agricultural program is central to Niweskok's work, and is rooted in rematriation. It helps Indigenous communities reconnect with and care for their ancestral lands. The site sits on more than 200 acres along the Goose River. Here on the farm, traditional knowledge and regenerative practices come together naturally. As Niweskok is getting re-aquainted to the land in the ancestral territory of the Penobscot Bay region, we are working with the land to heal it and restore it to a more traditional way of caring for the earth. Reaching toward decolonizing the diet and food sovereignty, Alihpewakanal- "Things to Eat", our agricultural program, focuses on growing native plant relatives and traditional food crops while building soils. It's a space where cultural resilience is nurtured. We engage in the gift economy and share all foods grown, gathered, and processed without cost to Wabanaki families. We were able to provide more than 4,000 pounds of locally grown vegetables, 492 pounds of traditional wild rice, 1,565 pounds of traditional cornmeal, and 2,951 pounds of locally raised organic poultry and locally caught shellfish. In addition, we gifted 444 quarts of…
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,912.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Niweskok’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Niweskok has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Niweskok.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Niweskok draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Niweskok receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Niweskok
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
13% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Niweskok?
- Niweskok (Maine) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,327,877 to it, the largest being WHYHUNGER INC ($485,075). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Niweskok have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,327,877 in grants to Niweskok, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Niweskok?
- WHYHUNGER INC is the largest funder on record, with $485,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Niweskok find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing