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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SO MAINE AGENCY ON AGING | $11,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOC | $11,000 |
| CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $11,000 |
| MCARTHUR PUBLIC LIBRARY | $11,000 |
| LAUDHOLM TRUST | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| IRIS NETWORK | $11,000 |
| APEX YOUTH CONECTION | $11,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE | $11,000 |
| PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $11,000 |
| JACKSON LABRATORY | $11,000 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $11,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM THEATER MAINE | $11,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AYAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION6× · 2019–2024 · $66k · revenue +67%
- SMSouthern Maine Agency on Aging6× · 2019–2024 · $66k · revenue +51%
- TIThe Iris Network6× · 2019–2024 · $66k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SMSOUTHERN MAINE MED CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SASMHC ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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 Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
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…
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
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.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
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.
Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.
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…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Robbie Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds APEX YOUTH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Ecology Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds LAUDHOLM TRUST ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Portland Public Library ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Robbie Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
- Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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