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· Private foundation
THE RICHARD J FITTON FAMILY FDN
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$315k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
2
Communities
$219k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$754kPhilanthropy$569kArts & Culture$190kEnvironment$110kHuman Services$75kEmployment$75kAnimals$22kOther$594k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
hamilton
2020
artshamilton
2021
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2022
hamilton
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $269k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$218,825
- INSPIRATION STUDIOS$50,000
- FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
- AVIAN RESEARCH & EDUCATION INSTITUTE$21,450
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 12 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
8
Total granted
$2.0M
$362k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+59%
+49%
Still filing today
58%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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
- HCHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $569k · revenue +439%
- FCFITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS3× · 2019–2023 · $190k · revenue +40%
- HPHAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- JNJOE NUXHALL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- FCFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $94k · revenue +12%
- YYMCAone grant, 2022 · $41k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Fairfield Community Foundation
To solicit, invest, and disburse funds as grants and scholarships for the educational, charitable, artistic, social and civic benefit of the citizens in the surrounding community.
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2
Fort Hamilton Hospital Foundation
We honor our community's legacy of generosity and connect it to Hamilton's thriving future.
Health
3
Hamilton Health Center Inc
To improve the health of central pa residents by delivering high quality health & social services.
Health
4
Community Foundation of Fayette
To build a stronger fayette county by inspiring charitable giving, supporting nonprofits, and nurturing positive community impact.
Philanthropy
5
Fairfield County's Community Foundation
Fairfield county's community foundation serves the 23 towns and cities in fairfield county, ct. we work closely with community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and philanthropists to address challenges and identify opportunities to…
Philanthropy
6
Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community
To build self-sufficiency through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs.
Human Services
7
Akron Community Foundation
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community.
Philanthropy
8
The Community Foundation of
To connect donors with their charitable giving priorities, serve as a resource for local nonprofit organizations and provide leadership to the community.
Philanthropy
9
Hamilton Center Inc
Hamilton center provides outpatient and day services to mentally ill and chronically addicted children and adults, residential and inpatient services to mentally ill adults, prevention and early intervention services to children and…
Health
10
Central Adirondack Partnership for
Forum for community concerns
Community Improvement
11
Fairfield Theatre Company Inc
Fairfield theatre company (ftc) is dedicated to connect and enrich the community through the transforming power of the arts. ftc believes that the quality of life is richly influenced by opportunities to get out and come together in public…
Arts & Culture
12
Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc
To mobilize people, ideas and investment to make a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential no matter their place, race or identity.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fairfield Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$753,642Other$593,700Philanthropy$568,510Arts & Culture$190,000Environment$110,000Human Services$75,000Employment$75,000Animals$22,000
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 COMMUNITY FIRST SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION 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.
Hamilton Community FoundationOH20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE RICHARD J FITTON FAMILY FDN 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 310736673 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn?
Find your warmest path to The Richard J Fitton Family Fdn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines