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Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$719k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$58k6%
FY202418$63k0%
FY202318$73k11%
FY202219$72k26%
FY202116$57k25%
FY202013$35k15%
FY201911$26k18%
FY201816$37k31%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$125kMembership Benefit$72kArts & Culture$53kYouth Development$51kCommunity Improvement$27kRecreation & Sports$23kAnimals$22kEducation$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oakwood Cemetery Association$72,000910%
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$30,00050%
Trumbull Art Gallery$27,00094%
Trumbull Family Fitness$23,00061%
Troop 101 Alumni Association Inc$20,0005n/a
Animal Welfare League$17,00090%
Community Literacy Foundation$11,0009n/a
Warren Development Association$11,0009n/a
Packard Museum Association$10,50061%
Trumbull County Historical Soc$10,00062%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oakwood Cemetery Association$72,000910%
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio$30,00050%
Trumbull Art Gallery$27,00094%
Trumbull Family Fitness$23,00061%
Troop 101 Alumni Association Inc$20,0005n/a
Animal Welfare League$17,00090%
Community Literacy Foundation$11,0009n/a
Warren Development Association$11,0009n/a
Packard Museum Association$10,50061%
Trumbull County Historical Soc$10,00062%
Friends of Barrington's White House$10,00051%
Citizens for Conservation Inc$9,00040%
Window to the World Communications Inc$4,00040%
Upton Association$4,0004n/a
Home of the Sparrow Inc$3,00030%
Animal House Shelter Inc$3,00030%
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership$2,00010%
United Way of Trumbull County$2,00010%
Warren Civic Music Association$1,00011%
Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley$1,0001n/a
Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc$1,0001n/a
The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)$1,00010%
Someplace Safe Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOakwood Cemetery Association: $72,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetGirl Scouts of North East Ohio: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrumbull Art Gallery: $27,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetTrumbull Family Fitness: $23,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $17,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPackard Museum Association: $10,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTrumbull County Historical Soc: $10,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFriends of Barrington's White House: $10,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCitizens for Conservation Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal House Shelter Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrumbull Neighborhood Partnership: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Trumbull County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWarren Civic Music Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Helene P Kaighin Charitable Tr XxxxxxxxxOH30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helene P Kaighin Charitable Tr Xxxxxxxxx · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Valley Economic Development Partners Inc · I J Van Huffel Foundation Xxxxxxxxx · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation

How much does Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation give?
Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $57,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Membership Benefit (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oakwood Cemetery Association ($72k), Girl Scouts of North East Ohio ($30k), Trumbull Art Gallery ($27k).
Does Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Helene P Kaighin Charitable Tr Xxxxxxxxx, The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation, Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley.
Where is Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation based?
Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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