· Private foundation
Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| TRUMBULL ART GALLERY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PACKARD MUSEUEM ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BARRINGTONS WHITE HOUSE NFP | $1,500 |
| UPTON ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY LITERACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WARREN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $2k · 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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 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 FRIENDS OF BARRINGTON'S WHITE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC ↗
- 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 UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WARREN CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
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: 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
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 Nancy Kaighin Van Fossan 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.
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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