· Private foundation
Pugh Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH | $23,000 |
| THE MATTHEWS HOUSE | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| GIVEWELL TOP CHARITIES FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $4,000 |
| REAGAN HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,600 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $2,200 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,700 |
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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- BCBIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH4× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +35%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +39%
EARTHJUSTICE2× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +40%- GPGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -88%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 60 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 BIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds UTAH COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom for Immigrants ↗
- Who funds MOBILE SURGERY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Sempra Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Pugh Family 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.