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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$2.4MHealth$2.2MEducation$2.1MFood & Nutrition$954kYouth Development$549kHousing & Shelter$397kPhilanthropy$393kEmployment$226kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $677k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC$50,000
MISSION WEST VIRGINIA$50,000
THE UNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNTIES$50,000
MONONGLIA COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC$50,000
WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC$40,000
LIBERA INC$40,000
FOOD FOR PRESTON$40,000
RALEIGH COUNTY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$39,020
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 15%THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $96k → 15%SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $50k → 19%SEED SOWER INC: $25k → 20%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $50k → 25%CHRISTIAN HELP INC OF MINGO COUNTY: $62k → 31%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $40k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $50k → 15%SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $35k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC OF MINGO COUNTY: $50k → 31%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $36k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME OF WHEELING: $50k → 15%POLLEN8 INC: $35k → 18%GOLDEN GIRL INC: $100k → 18%SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $30k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC OF MINGO COUNTY: $30k → 31%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $24k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $40k → 15%GOLDEN GIRL GROUP HOME INC: $20k → 18%SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $25k → 19%PARKERSBURG AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 19%FOOD FOR PRESTON: $24k → 14%HOH-SHARE INC: $25k → 15%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION: $23k → 18%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $49k → 19%SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $25k → 19%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $20k → 15%SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $20k → 19%SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $20k → 19%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $50k → 19%MON CO SOCIETY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN: $50k → 19%COMMUNITY BRIDGE: $27k → 18%JACOB'S LADDER ASSISTANCE FUND: $40k → 19%THE HEALING HOUSE INC: $25k → 18%ENACT INC: $25k → 18%JACOB'S LADDER ASSISTANCE FUND: $25k → 19%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $25k → 19%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $25k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC: $50k → 19%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $150k → 19%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $150k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC: $38k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC: $35k → 19%LIBERA INC: $70k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP INC: $25k → 19%LIBERA INC: $45k → 19%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $42k → 19%LIBERA INC: $40k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 53 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
40

Total granted

$7.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+18%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $893k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CM
    CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $357k · revenue +368%
  • TP
    THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $284k · revenue +32%
  • BH
    BARTLETT HOUSE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • WV
    West Virginia Black Heritage Festival Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -26% · 65% of their budget
  • PE
    PACE ENTERPRISES OF WEST VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TD
    THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $96k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
2
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
3
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Mountain State Justice Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Tug Valley Recovery Shelter Associationinc

Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.

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7
Pocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc

To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Human Services
8
Family Counseling Connection Inc

Nurturing the mental health and psychological well being of children, adults and families.

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9
Mountaineer Community Health Center

To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.

Health
10
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Summers County Council on Aging Inc

Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.

Human Services
12
Southern Wv Felllowship Home Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission West Virginia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 129 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
55/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MON HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherMON HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONMONONGALIA COUNTY SCHOOLS: $275,000 · OtherMONONGALIA COUNTY SCHOOLSBARTLETT HOUSE INC: $230,000 · OtherBARTLETT HOUSE INCWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $150,000 · OtherUPSHUR COOPERATIVE PARISH HOUSE INC: $130,000 · OtherFACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC: $125,000 · OtherWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $112,800 · OtherPRESTON COUNTY WORKSHOP INC: $126,040 · OtherMORGANTOWN AREA YOUTH SERVICES PROJECT: $120,000 · Other+55 more: $1,680,648 · Other+55 moreCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $357,000 · Human ServicesCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH IN…Libera Inc: $215,000 · Human ServicesLibera IncCHRISTIAN HELP INC: $147,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN HELP INCChristian Help Inc of Mingo County: $142,000 · Human ServicesChristian Help Inc of Ming…SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE I…FOOD FOR PRESTON INC: $124,000 · Human ServicesEmpty Bowls Monongalia: $120,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN GIRL INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesSCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesJACOB'S LADDER ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $80,000 · Human Services+14 more: $483,720 · Human Services+14 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNI…THE APPALACHIAN READING CENTER INC: $82,400 · EducationMorgantown Early Learning Facility: $80,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $70,000 · EducationFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $115,000 · Education+5 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $500,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION …MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC: $360,000 · HealthMILAN PUSKAR HE…LAURENS WISH ADDICTION TRIAGE CENTE: $150,000 · HealthLAURENS WISH AD…Boone Memorial Hospital Inc: $60,000 · HealthDEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthON EAGLES' WINGS INC: $45,302 · Health+8 more: $190,313 · Health+8 moreTHE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC: $284,250 · Food & NutritionMORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS: $100,000 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $85,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT HEALTHY KIDS INC: $57,000 · Food & NutritionWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Markets Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES INC: $287,726 · PhilanthropyStar Club Inc: $107,475 · PhilanthropyTHE CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC: $195,000 · Arts & CultureWest Virginia Black Heritage Festival Inc: $140,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,349,488Human Services$2,325,220Education$1,557,400Health$1,355,615Food & Nutrition$571,250Philanthropy$500,201Arts & Culture$375,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF MONONGALIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $500,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC: $360,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $357,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES INC: $287,726 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC: $284,250 over 5y, 16% of budgetBARTLETT HOUSE INC: $230,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetLibera Inc: $215,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC: $195,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAURENS WISH ADDICTION TRIAGE CENTE: $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCHRISTIAN HELP INC: $147,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetChristian Help Inc of Mingo County: $142,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWest Virginia Black Heritage Festival Inc: $140,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetPRESTON COUNTY WORKSHOP INC: $126,040 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetFACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR PRESTON INC: $124,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetEmpty Bowls Monongalia: $120,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetMORGANTOWN AREA YOUTH SERVICES PROJECT: $120,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGOLDEN GIRL INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $112,800 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $110,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetStar Club Inc: $107,475 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS: $100,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPACE ENTERPRISES OF WEST VIRGINIA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC: $96,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE APPALACHIAN READING CENTER INC: $82,400 over 4y, 11% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $80,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORKS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJACOB'S LADDER ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $80,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetMorgantown Early Learning Facility: $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $70,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBoone Memorial Hospital Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY KIDS INC: $57,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS HOME OF WHEELING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPRESTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMcDowell County Commission on Aging Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Bernard McDonough Fou…Encova Foundation of …Pallottine Foundation…The Greater Kanawha V…Truist West Virginia …Claude Worthington Be…Your Community Founda…United Way of Mononga…Bowles Rice FoundationHazel Ruby McQuain Ch…George D Hott Foundat…Firstenergy Foundation
Bernard McDonough Foundation IncWV64.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Milan Puskar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milan Puskar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Milan Puskar Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Milan Puskar Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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