· Private foundation
Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WARREN | $15,000 |
| OAKWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO | $6,000 |
| TROOP 101 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| TRUMBULL ART GALLERY | $3,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION | $2,500 |
| PACKARD MUSEUEM ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BARRINGTONS WHITE HOUSE NFP | $1,500 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $1,000 |
| WARREN CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY LITERACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WARREN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| UPTON ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 98% 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
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +39%
- TATRUMBULL ART GALLERY9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +7%
- TFTRUMBULL FAMILY FITNESS6× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- FPFirst Presbyterian Church of Warren Endoone grant, 2021 · $16k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- TNTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +119%
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.
To preserve and present the history of warren county and southwest ohio.
The Barrington History Museum is a Not-For-Profit organization founded for the purpose of promoting interest in preservation, documentation, and exhibition of Barrington, Illnois hertitage, along with the historic preservation of buildings…
To provide assistance to low-income, elderly, and children in the local area of warren, ohio.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
History museum of mchenry county, illinois.
Provide for humane treatment of animals.
Prevention of cruelty to animals, releive suffering among animals, extend humane education and maintain an animal shelter.
Tecumseh Land Preservation Association is a nonprofit environmental conservation organization serving Clark & Greene counties of Ohio. We preserve agricultural land, natural areas & water resources.
Protect/preserve animals and their rights
Land conservation
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The organization's purpose is archival and display of historical artifacts in a museum that is open to the public.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 OAKWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL FAMILY FITNESS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Packard Museum Association ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BARRINGTON'S WHITE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WARREN CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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