· Private foundation
Alfred & Dorothy Osher Foundation C0 BRUZGO & CO
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | $1,000 |
| USM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SPACE GALLERY | $1,000 |
| LEARNING WORKS | $1,000 |
| MAINE 4-H FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank3× · 2019–2021 · $12k · revenue +79%
- MCMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN3× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +73%
- LLEARNINGWORKS3× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MAMMC ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SMSOUTHERN ME HOSPITAL SMHCone grant, 2019 · $5k
Portland Museum of Artone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +17%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Maine Cancer Foundation is dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine. 100% of funds raised by the Foundation are used to benefit the people of Maine.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
- Who funds MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LEVEY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM HAILEY HUGS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alfred & Dorothy Osher Foundation C0 BRUZGO & CO funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred & Dorothy Osher Foundation C0 BRUZGO & CO. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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