How much does Wescustogo Foundation give?

Wescustogo Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $3,398,719 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Wescustogo Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Environment (21%), Health (17%).

Who are Wescustogo Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: MaineHealth ($1.2M), Portland Museum of Art ($993k), Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra ($882k).

Does Wescustogo Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wescustogo Foundation 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 Wescustogo Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson.

Where is Wescustogo Foundation based?

Wescustogo Foundation is based in FL.

Foundation Dossiers

Florida · Private foundation

Wescustogo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 58
Grants FY2025: 54
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $322,345
Organizations funded a year: 42 to 54; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $77M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wescustogo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	53	$2.8M	4%
FY2024	54	$2.7M	0%
FY2023	53	$2.7M	6%
FY2022	52	$2.6M	10%
FY2021	48	$2.1M	13%
FY2020	42	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.0MEnvironment$3.4MHealth$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$742kAnimals$708kHuman Services$465kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MaineHealth	$1,215,982	6	0%
Portland Museum of Art	$992,728	6	2%
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra	$881,841	6	4%
Preble Street	$741,612	6	1%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation	$718,778	6	3%
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital	$686,564	6	0%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$609,163	6	0%
West Side Center for Community Life	$579,172	6	1%
Riverkeeper Inc	$574,559	6	3%
LifeFlight of Maine LLC	$436,381	6	0%

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All grantees of Wescustogo Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MaineHealth	$1,215,982	6	0%
Portland Museum of Art	$992,728	6	2%
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra	$881,841	6	4%
Preble Street	$741,612	6	1%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation	$718,778	6	3%
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital	$686,564	6	0%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$609,163	6	0%
West Side Center for Community Life	$579,172	6	1%
Riverkeeper Inc	$574,559	6	3%
LifeFlight of Maine LLC	$436,381	6	0%
Original Music Workshop Inc	$409,037	6	3%
Wayside Food Programs	$353,048	6	6%
Cornell University	$325,061	3	0%
Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc	$315,000	6	2%
Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute	$311,000	6	4%
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc	$310,138	5	0%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute	$299,917	6	0%
Shed NYC Inc	$295,000	5	0%
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc	$280,000	6	2%
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc	$255,000	6	2%
Midcoast Conservancy	$255,000	6	3%
Royal River Conservation Trust	$240,000	6	17%
Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc	$217,000	6	1%
Person to Person Inc	$195,000	6	0%
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program	$165,000	5	1%
Center for Contemporary Art	$159,200	6	4%
Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment Inc	$148,000	6	2%
Recess Activities Inc	$145,000	6	4%
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries	$140,000	6	4%
New York City Ballet Inc	$140,000	3	0%
Family & Children's Agency Inc	$135,000	5	0%
Norwalk Hospital Foundation	$125,000	4	0%
Northeast Historic Film	$119,200	6	5%
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust	$113,000	6	2%
Save the Sound	$110,000	5	0%
North Yarmouth Historical Society	$105,000	5	22%
The Susan L Curtis Foundation	$100,000	4	2%
Kezar Lake Watershed Association	$99,000	6	20%
Maine Maritime Museum	$90,000	6	1%
Maine Farmland Trust	$85,000	6	1%
Maine Behavioral Healthcare	$80,000	4	n/a
Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society Inc	$75,000	6	5%
French Institute - Alliance Francaise	$75,000	3	0%
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc	$73,000	6	0%
Maine Historical Society	$70,000	4	1%
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc	$66,000	6	2%
Center for Contemporary Printmaking	$63,000	6	4%
Maine Audubon Society	$60,000	6	0%
The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness	$60,000	6	13%
SPACE Gallery	$60,000	6	2%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Maine Youth Alliance	$50,000	5	3%
Citymeals-On-Wheels	$50,000	1	0%
Hope Acts	$50,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc	$38,000	6	4%
Waldo Theatre Inc	$30,000	6	2%
Maine Rivers	$10,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wescustogo Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 55.

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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 IncME43.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation

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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About Wescustogo Foundation

How much does Wescustogo Foundation give?: Wescustogo Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $3,398,719 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wescustogo Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Environment (21%), Health (17%).
Who are Wescustogo Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: MaineHealth ($1.2M), Portland Museum of Art ($993k), Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra ($882k).
Does Wescustogo Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wescustogo Foundation 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 Wescustogo Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson.
Where is Wescustogo Foundation based?: Wescustogo Foundation is based in FL.