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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 FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$322k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $678k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $582k
$45,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charityvest Inc$322,345
MaineHealth$260,092
Nature Conservancy Inc$200,178
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra$150,083
Portland Museum of Art$150,083
Mercy Hospital$150,000
Cornell University$125,061
Preble Street$125,000
West Side Center for Community Life Inc$120,000
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation$110,138
Riverkeeper Inc$110,057
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy$100,138
Good Shepherd Food Bank$80,000
Shed NYC$75,000
Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $75k → 11%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $60k → 11%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $50k → 11%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $50k → 11%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $25k → 11%Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $20k → 11%Family & Children's Agency: $35k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $25k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $25k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $25k → 9%Family & Children's Agency: $25k → 9%Preble Street: $125k → 7%Preble Street: $125k → 7%Preble Street: $125k → 7%Preble Street: $125k → 7%Preble Street: $124k → 7%Preble Street: $118k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $55k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $55k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $53k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $53k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $50k → 7%Hope Acts: $50k → 7%Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $45k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Wescustogo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 9% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 12%.

Wescustogo Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 56 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
2

Total granted

$14M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+542%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • M
    MaineHealth
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +87%
  • Portland Museum of Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $993k · revenue +7%
  • PM
    PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $882k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    Hope Actsgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue +542%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
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.

—
4
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
5
Kennebunk Land Trust

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

Environment
6
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
7
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust

The mission of the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is to conserve, restore, and instill appreciation of the land and water resources of the Kennebec Estuary for the benefit of today's communities and future generations.

Environment
8
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.

—
9
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
10
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
46/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Portland Museum of Art: $992,728 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $881,841 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY O…ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $409,037 · Arts & CultureORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP I…SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $310,138 · Arts & CultureSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY C…SHED NYC INC: $295,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $159,200 · Arts & CultureRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $388,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $718,778 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CAPTIVA …RIVERKEEPER INC: $574,559 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INCMidcoast Conservancy: $255,000 · EnvironmentMidcoast Conserv…ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $240,000 · EnvironmentROYAL RIVER CONS…CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $148,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CAMPAIG…Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $113,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND: $110,000 · EnvironmentKEZAR LAKE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $99,000 · Environment+4 more: $174,000 · Environment+4 moreMaineHealth: $1,215,982 · HealthMaineHealthMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $686,564 · HealthMercy Hospital …ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $217,000 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR…Norwalk Hospital Foundation: $125,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospita…+1 more: $60,000 · HealthPREBLE STREET: $741,612 · Human ServicesPREBLE STR…Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $311,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Sn…FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $280,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF SA…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & C…+1 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $909,366 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $165,000 · OtherDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $315,000 · OtherDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCI…GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $299,917 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INS…WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $579,172 · OtherWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMU…LifeFlight of Maine LLC: $436,381 · OtherLifeFlight of Maine LLCCornell University: $325,061 · OtherCornell UniversityMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $140,000 · Other+9 more: $712,200 · Other+9 moreGood Shepherd Food Bank: $609,163 · Food & NutritionGood Shep…Wayside Food Programs: $353,048 · Food & NutritionWayside F…THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $255,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD …Maine Farmland Trust: $85,000 · Food & NutritionMaine Far…HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCHARITYVEST INC: $522,451 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $350,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC: $195,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,720,944Environment$2,432,337Health$2,304,546Human Services$1,517,612Other$3,882,097Food & Nutrition$1,402,211Philanthropy$1,247,451

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaineHealth: $1,215,982 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $992,728 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $909,366 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $881,841 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $741,612 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $718,778 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $686,564 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $609,163 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $579,172 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $574,559 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCHARITYVEST INC: $522,451 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $436,381 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $409,037 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $353,048 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $325,061 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $315,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $311,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $310,138 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $299,917 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $295,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $280,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $255,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $255,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $240,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $217,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $165,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $159,200 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $148,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $145,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $140,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM: $119,200 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $113,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $105,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetKEZAR LAKE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $99,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFIRE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE ISLANDS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budget
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 MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
  • Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITYVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
  • Who funds ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds RECESS ACTIVITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTH YARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wescustogo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wescustogo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Wescustogo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wescustogo Foundation 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.

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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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