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Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Co de Registered Agents & Incorporators at a glance

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Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Co de Registered Agents & Incorporators

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$544k
Granted FY2020
36
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$1.6MFood & Nutrition$260kHealth$203kCivil Rights$150kArts & Culture$132kInternational$100kReligion$50kHuman Services$43kOther$0
02FY2020 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$85,000
UT FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP$60,000
VOTERIDERS$40,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$30,000
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
OUR D$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$20,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIO$20,000
GALS$15,000
KEHILLAT ISRAEL$12,375
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
KCRW$10,000
VOTE LATINO FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCE CENT: $5k → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCE CENT: $4k → 10%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $4k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%AL OTRO LADO: $4k → 14%GRIEFHAVEN: $3k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
RI
CA
CO
WV
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 29 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
26

Total granted

$2.4M
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+77%

Still filing today

66%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $855k · revenue +20%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    3× · 2018–2020 · $235k · revenue +26%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +113%
  • CH
    CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $55k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is Project High Hopes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $855,000 · EducationTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INCThe George Washington University: $235,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Education+8 more: $118,500 · Education+8 moreUT FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP: $270,000 · OtherUT FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENS A: $250,000 · OtherMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENS ACALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL FOUNDATIONACLU FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherKEHILLAT ISRAEL RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION OF PACIFIC PALISADES: $48,725 · OtherGALS: $45,000 · OtherSIMMS MANN CTR UCLA JONSSON CANCER CTR: $35,000 · Other+29 more: $272,493 · Other+29 moreVOTERIDERS: $85,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTE: $10,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $10,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $10,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $5,300 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $33,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMercy Corps: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LADO: $4,000 · Human ServicesThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $3,000 · Human Services
Education$1,343,500Other$1,026,218Civil Rights$133,300Health$123,000Arts & Culture$113,500International$65,000Human Services$58,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $855,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe George Washington University: $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $85,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for the International Education of Students: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HIGH HOPES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMC FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRIC LODGE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Fite Family FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…ImpactassetsincLiberty Hill Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…Tides Foundation
California Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Fite Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Co de Registered Agents & Incorporators funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Co de Registered Agents & Incorporators. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Co de Registered Agents & Incorporators through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 71 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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