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The Amy Elizabeth Lauth Foundation Inc

Roanoke, VA · EIN 54-1849835. Reported 61 grants totalling $356,160 to 24 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$356,160granted, 2021-2025
24recipients, as named on its returns
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,385,178assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Amy Elizabeth Lauth Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Alice Lloyd CollegePippa Passes, KY$60,000332025
Southern Virginia Child AdvocacyRocky Mount, VA$52,000552025
Saint Francis Service DogsRoanoke, VA$36,000332025
Cardio Start InternationalTampa, FL$35,000442025
Habitat for HumanityRoanoke, VA$30,000332025
Sml Good NeighborsMoneta, VA$23,000442025
Bradley Free ClinicRoanoke, VA$20,000222025
Hands to LoveGainesville, FL$17,250332025
Children's Reading PartnersWashington, DC$15,000332024
Good SamaritanRoanoke, VA$12,000332025
Roanoke Catholic SchoolRoanoke, VA$10,000112025
Saint Francis HomeRichmond, VA$10,000112025
Rescue Mission MinistriesRoanoke, VA$6,000552025
Jewish Federation of Greater HartfordWest Hartford, CT$5,000112025
Serenity Funeral HomeRoanoke, VA$4,210112024
Alice's KidsMount Vernon, VA$3,000332025
CornerstonesReston, VA$3,000332025
Free Minds Book ClubWashington, DC$3,000332025
Lodge AutomotiveCovington, VA$3,000112024
Unbridled ChangeBoones Mill, VA$3,000332025
New Freedom FarmBuchanan, VA$2,500332024
Cc Williams Memorial ParkRoanoke, VA$1,200112024
Angels of AssisiRoanoke, VA$1,000112025
Friends of Guest HouseAlexandria, VA$1,000112023

16 of 24 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 74%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 10 grants to individuals totalling $84,939 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
21 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20215$33,000$5,000
20224$26,500$3,000
202315$85,750$5,000
202419$95,160$3,000
202518$115,750$5,875

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

62% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Virginia
$221K
Kentucky
$60K
Florida
$52K
District of Columbia
$18K
Connecticut
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Virginia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Amy Elizabeth Lauth Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 3333 Peters Creek Road, Roanoke, VA, 24019. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 54-1849835 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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