· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMaineHealth6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +87%
Portland Museum of Art6× · 2020–2025 · $993k · revenue +7%- PMPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $882k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
- HAHope Actsgraduatedone 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.
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.
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 mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
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…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
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.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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