· Private foundation
George B & Virginia W Pugh Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | $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 |
| 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 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MAHONING COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MVMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +105%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +71%
- CHCANFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CRCANFIELD ROTARY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +296% · 44% of their budget
- NKNEIL KENNEDY RECOVERY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 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 POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George B & Virginia W Pugh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George B & Virginia W Pugh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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