· Private foundation
Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of CHARLES M PUGLIESE AND THELMA M PUGLIESE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEUBENVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| SALEM TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES | $44,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| INDIAN CREEK BAND BOOSTERS | $28,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY 911 | $25,000 |
| BARTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE MIRACLE LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| TILTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| PLEASANT HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TORONTO CITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| BELLAIRE CITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
- OVOhio Valley Youth Network3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +247%
- SCSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +96%
- OVOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SBSTEUBENVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- GSGREAT STONE VIADUCT HSTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $55k
- TSTRI STATE HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue +11%
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.
Volunteer fire department
Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.
To provide fire protection and emergency rescue service for ballville township and surrounding areas.
To provide fire suppression, auto accident rescue, lost person rescue for the ohiopyle borough and stewart township
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.
The organization's purpose is to provide volunteer fire fighting services.
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
To provide fire and emergency services to community
Non profit volunteer fire department for the city of vienna, wv and surrounding areas. committed to educating communities about fire and safety.
We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.
Volunteer fire department.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edison High School Band Boosters. 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 22 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 111 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 STEUBENVILLE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ohio Valley Youth Network ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI STATE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY HUMANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Tourism Council Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT STEUBEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLNDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART INC ↗
- Who funds WINTERSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
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: John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Steel Valley Charities · Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation · United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · American Electric Power Foundation · Margaretta Churchman Char Trust · James B Chambers Memorial
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 Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable 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.
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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