The Hudson Foundation
Portland, ME · EIN 01-0482817. Reported 66 grants totalling $614,500 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Hudson Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waynflete School | Portland, ME | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | Auburn, ME | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Intercultural Community Center | Westbrook, ME | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cedars Nursing Care Center | Portland, ME | $32,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lewiston Public Schools | Lewiston, ME | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Spurwink Services | Portland, ME | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mano En Mano Hand in Hand | Milbridge, ME | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Avesta Housing | Portland, ME | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Women for Healthy Rural Living | Milbridge, ME | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Aroostook County Action Program | Presque Isle, ME | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Nutrition Center | Lewiston, ME | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | Portland, ME | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Somali Bantu Community Lewiston of Maine | Lewiston, ME | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Downeast Community Partners | Ellsworth, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healthy Homeworks | Lewiston, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ilap) | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knox County Homeless Coalition | Rockland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maine Medical Center | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ecology School | Saco, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tree Street Youth | Lewiston, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth and Family Outreach | Portland, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy Acadia | Ellsworth, ME | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry | Ayer, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Math and Science Alliance | Augusta, ME | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cumberland County Food Security Council | Yarmouth, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Portland Public Schools | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Portland Family Promise | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center | Portland, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kennebec Estuary Land Trust | Bath, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries | Stonington, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Preble Street | Portland, ME | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chip Inc | Newcastle, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Planning Association of Maine Inc (aka Maine Family Planning) | Augusta, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity York County | Kennebunk, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Health Equity Alliance | Bangor, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maine Conservation Alliance | Augusta, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maine Jewish Museum | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mainegeneral Medical Center | Augusta, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | Brunswick, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Northern Lighthouse Inc | Presque Isle, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wayside Food Programs | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Oxford County Nutrition Inc | Brownfield, ME | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Island Connections | Bar Harbor, ME | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oxford Hills Community Garden | Norway, ME | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra | Portland, ME | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maine Initiatives | Portland, ME | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 47 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 32%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Waynflete School
Funding for the Third Thought Initiative for Civic Engagement and to increase diversity of the Lower School - Cedars Nursing Care Center
To support the CNA Plus Training & Career Advancement Program - Spurwink Services
Funding for mental health services, food and school programs to support refugee children and families - Good Shepherd Food Bank
To provide funding to support the Campaign to End Hunger in Maine - Intercultural Community Center
$7,500 to the Family CARES program; $10,000 to fund academic support programs for children - Avesta Housing
To support services needed by asylum seekers
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 52 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $195,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $136,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $137,000 | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 18 | $146,000 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Maine. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maine.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Hudson Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 402, Portland, ME, 04112. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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