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THRIVE IN JOY NICK FAGNANO FOUNDATION

EIN 47-2931858 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2025
$453,303
Expenses 2025
$362,363

Program services were 60.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1000
Street
612 S BROADWAY STE 523

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The mission of the Thrive in Joy Nick Fagnano Foundation is to encourage young people to discover their character strengths and the joy of service through programs inspired by the life of Nick Fagnano. The core program: the Thrive in Joy Collective: Character, Community, College, Career; is an innovative, inclusive, peer-led after-school program for high school students from low-income communities in Los Angeles. First gen college students provide mentorship within programming that recognizes critical gaps in teen social connection by enhancing the structure, function, and quality of interaction among participants. Students network with business and community leaders and collaborate to create change on their campus and in their community. The Collective transforms elements of social isolation into social innovation. Thrive in Joys programming has also been delivered by volunteers who travel internationally to serve vulnerable populations. A legacy program, from which Thrive in Joy orig

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $220,070 · Revenue $123,424

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mary Fagnano

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $54,000
    From this org
    $54,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Elizabeth Rojas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jay Fagnano

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hugo Sanchez

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Danny Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kris Williams

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Josue Najera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Batizy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Godinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Hagizadegan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Joye Swan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $453,303
    Expenses
    $362,363
    Contributions
    $313,358
    Grants paid
    $70,050
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $388,522
    Expenses
    $364,552
    Contributions
    $385,990
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $300,785
    Expenses
    $326,111
    Contributions
    $296,084
    Grants paid
    $55,390
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $232,319
    Expenses
    $316,744
    Contributions
    $231,610
    Grants paid
    $96,294

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $311,755
    Expenses
    $186,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,729

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $149,070
    Expenses
    $130,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,662

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,827
    Expenses
    $72,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,218

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $60,766
    Expenses
    $41,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,226

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $64,868
    Expenses
    $51,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,630

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $55,583
    Expenses
    $49,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,009

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Mary Fagnano
Mailing address
849 S BroadwayLos Angeles CA 90014
Website
www.thriveinjoy.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.