· Private foundation
George B & Virginia W Pugh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MAHONING RIVER | $1,000 |
| CANFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CANFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS | $1,000 |
| BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART | $1,000 |
| MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SMARTS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FELLOWS RIVERSIDE GARDEN | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MAHONING COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MVMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +105%
- FOFRIENDS OF FELLOWS RIVERSIDE GARDENS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- CRCANFIELD ROTARY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +296% · 44% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- NKNEIL KENNEDY RECOVERY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Museum
The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.
Archive History of Community
The Yardley Historical Association preserves, maintains, and shares the 1878 Old Library by Lake Afton and its collections of books, documents, and ephemera related to Yardley's history. Research, programs, publications, and activities,…
The mission of the youngstown symphony society is to increase the appreciation for and familiarity with fine music, to ensure the continued presentation of traditional symphonic repertoire by the youngstown symphony orchestra while…
To operate as a museum of road transportation, vehicles, artifacts, roadside culture, alternative propulsion, and vehicle builders focused on pennsylvania and the greater delaware valley; as well as the historic vehicles built by jeremiah…
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
The lorain county historical society collects, preserves, and shares the history of lorain county, ohio to educate and inspire present and future generations.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
The organization connects you to the complex and evolving story of our nation through the lens of one revolutionary household.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Cityscape Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry H Stambaugh Auditorium Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 CANFIELD ROTARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FELLOWS RIVERSIDE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds CANFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Premier Bank Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Lamb Jane Charitable Fdn · William B Pollock II & Kathryn Challis · J Ford Crandall Depository · John D Finnegan Fdn · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
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 George B & Virginia W Pugh 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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