· Private foundation
Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CITY OF TORONTO | $30,000 |
| INDIAN CREEK BAND BOOSTERS | $28,000 |
| BARTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY 911 | $25,000 |
| EDISON LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BELLAIRE CITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| THE MIRACLE LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| TORONTO CITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TILTONSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 7% of Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 75%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 111 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 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 OLD FORT STEUBEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Tourism Council 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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