New York · Nonprofit
Onkwe Inc
Onkwe Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,865 to it, the largest being JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION ($153,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $231k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Onkwe Inc does
Mission
Onkwe is a group of Onkwehonwe (Orininal Peoples-Mohawk name for people-original living being.) Onkwe grop shares, and teaches traditional knowledge inherited from elders regardig farming and gardening techniques, with families an youth of today and all generations to come. To date, Onkwe runs a greenhouse, a community garden, maple syrup production, participats in seed collection and swappling, community food distributions
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
A Traditional medicine gathern was held at Generations Parkthat gathered traditional medicine educators and the communityfor 2 days. They also learned about food prep and harvesting.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants29% of program spendingOnkwe worked with many different nations to give food tothose in need and provided 200 community baskets that included tradtional foods. They also included language lists.
$49,353 spentof which $56,000 as grants71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,353.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $52k to $203 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of Onkwe Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $35k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Onkwe Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Onkwe Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 Onkwe Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of Onkwe Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Onkwe Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Onkwe Inc
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Onkwe Inc?
- Onkwe Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,865 to it, the largest being JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION ($153,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Onkwe Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $230,865 in grants to Onkwe Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Onkwe Inc?
- JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Onkwe Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4 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