· Private foundation
Milan Puskar Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $677k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $70,000 |
| PROJECT HEALTHY KIDS INC | $57,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNTIES | $50,000 |
| MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC | $50,000 |
| MONONGLIA COUNTY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MISSION WEST VIRGINIA | $50,000 |
| FOOD FOR PRESTON | $40,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| LIBERA INC | $40,000 |
| RALEIGH COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $39,020 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 78% 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.
53 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 34 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $893k 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
- CMCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC4× · 2019–2023 · $357k · revenue +289%
- BHBARTLETT HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +48%
- LILibera Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- WVWest Virginia Black Heritage Festival Incone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -26% · 65% of their budget
- PEPACE ENTERPRISES OF WEST VIRGINIAone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TDTHE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $96k · revenue +18%
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Nurturing the mental health and psychological well being of children, adults and families.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
The southern west virginia fellowship home is here to serve all in need of a better life apart from drugs and alcohol. we have a confident expectation that a whole new life "a better life" exists for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission West Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoh Share Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 129 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Libera Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LAURENS WISH ADDICTION TRIAGE CENTE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Help Inc of Mingo County ↗
- Who funds West Virginia Black Heritage Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESTON COUNTY WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PRESTON INC ↗
- Who funds Empty Bowls Monongalia ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN AREA YOUTH SERVICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GIRL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Star Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ENTERPRISES OF WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE APPALACHIAN READING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NETWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S LADDER ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Morgantown Early Learning Facility ↗
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: Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Inc · United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · George D Hott Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation
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 Milan Puskar Foundation Inc 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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