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NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION
NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,869 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($93,467). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Nelson T Gant Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the gant foundation is to work in collaboration with other organizations to promote the sharing of our efforts advocating the gant foundation and the legacy of nelson t gant. To this end, the gant foundation strives to create an endowment that supports the educational and cultural enterprises offered throughout the community by the gant foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Operation of a museum to display artifacts related to the history of the nelson t gant family and his familiies community endeavors with over 11 00 visitors per year. We also commemorate juneteenth with a day of celebration for families and we had over 250 in attendance.
$56,407 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,407.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $14k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION?
- NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,869 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($93,467). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $128,869 in grants to NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION?
- J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN is the largest funder on record, with $93,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NELSON T GANT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing