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The Bertuzzi Family Foundation

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.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$945kEducation$235kHealth$191kEnvironment$77kHousing & Shelter$59kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$45kHuman Services$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $143k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC$143,000
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION$25,000
A MAINEHEALTH HCSR$25,000
POINTS NORTH INSTITUTE$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$12,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$10,000
COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST$10,000
UNITED MID-COAST CHARITIES INC$10,000
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART$7,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WALDO COUNTY$5,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS$5,000
HOMEWORTHY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $5k → 13%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $5k → 13%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $3k → 13%WALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS: $3k → 13%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $3k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%PENOBSCOT BAY YMCA: $2k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $28k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $5k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 31 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
1

Total granted

$1.7M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+11%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TW
    THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $741k · revenue +32%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +64%
  • UA
    UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • HC
    Hartwick College
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
2
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
3
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
4
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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5
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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7
Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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8
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
9
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trust

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum preserves and operates hstoric two-foot gauge railroad equipment for the education and enjoyment of the public.

Science & Tech
10
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
11
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
12
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr15%52%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
9%
333/3,649

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $740,821 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INCPoints North Institute — $85,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institute+7 more — $81,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreMaineHealth — $170,000 · HealthMaineHealthCamden Area District Nursing Association — $11,000 · HealthCamden Area …CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $100,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AME…Maine Media College — $25,000 · OtherMaine Media Col…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $25,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS F…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS F…GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE R…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALDO COUNTY INC — $16,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUM…Maine Farmland Trust — $11,000 · OtherLincolnville Boat Club — $9,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…Hartwick College — $10,000 · EducationHartwick C…FOOTHILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $8,000 · EducationFOOTHILLS …TANGLEWOOD CAMP AND LEARNING CENTER — $6,000 · EducationCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $50,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $12,500 · EnvironmentCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $8,000 · EnvironmentHomeworthy — $43,000 · Human ServicesWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $16,000 · Human ServicesPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$907,321Health$191,000Other$231,000Education$149,000Environment$70,500Human Services$69,000Philanthropy$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $740,821 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMaineHealth — $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPoints North Institute — $85,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHomeworthy — $43,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $27,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMaine Media College — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWALDO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WALDO COUNTY INC — $16,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCamden Area District Nursing Association — $11,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHartwick College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENOBSCOT BAY YMCA — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATSKILL AREA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLincolnville Boat Club — $9,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFOOTHILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND THEATRE INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTANGLEWOOD CAMP AND LEARNING CENTER — $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THIRTEEN INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe General Henry Knox Museum — $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Otter Island Foundati…Onion FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Tr Ua the Camden Foun…Fisher Charitable Fou…Rjm Stein Family Foun…Mattina R Proctor Fou…Donald & Alice Noble …Bangor Savings Bank F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Community Foundation …
Maine Community Foundation IncME26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Otter Island Foundation · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Tr Ua the Camden Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Rjm Stein Family Foundation · Mattina R Proctor Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis 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 The Bertuzzi Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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