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Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$261k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2024
42
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 42
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving37$250k3%
FY202342$354k24%
FY202233$239k42%
FY202119$209k0%
FY202019$209k0%
FY201919$209kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$272kEnvironment$264kHealth$262kArts & Culture$210kHuman Services$140kYouth Development$132kCrime & Legal$66kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($498k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetApex Youth Connection: $66,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Iris Network: $66,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWayfinder Schools: $66,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetEcology Education Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLaudholm Trust: $66,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $66,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Jackson Laboratory: $66,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $66,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPine Tree Society Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Grieving Children: $66,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Public Library: $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRobbie Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMaine College of Art and Design: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTree of Life Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPACE Gallery: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLearningworks: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 23.

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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 IncME36.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Alfred & Dorothy Osher Foundation C0 BRUZGO & CO · Spectemur Agendo 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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Find your warmest path to Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC

How much does Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC give?
Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC reported 39 grants totaling $260,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Environment (17%), Health (17%).
Who are Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Apex Youth Connection ($66k), Southern Maine Agency on Aging ($66k), The Iris Network ($66k).
Does Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.
Where is Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC based?
Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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