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Black households hold thirteen cents of wealth for every dollar white households hold. Buy-now-pay-later platforms targeted at low-income consumers grew five-fold in five years. Personal-finance curricula reach over thirty million students each year on assumptions rarely tested in the populations they're taught to. The Institute of FAME conducts and funds the peer-reviewed research and psychometric instruments that the regulators, educators, and advocates working on these problems can rely on. Your gift funds the research and its translation — into the policy briefs and comments that move the rules, and the financial education that puts the findings in people's hands.
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The Institute of FAME, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 81-4374785), classified under IRS section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi). Contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. Gifts of $250 or more receive a contemporaneous written acknowledgment by email.
Founders Circle
$25 a month funds the science that fights back.
Predatory financial actors use behavioral science to engineer products that exploit consumers who don't have the sophistication the system assumes they do. The Institute of FAME, Inc. funds the peer-reviewed research that documents what they're doing — and translates it into the policy briefs and regulatory comments that move the rules. Recurring monthly support is what makes that slow, expensive, un-glamorous work fundable at scale.
Founders Circle members receive a quarterly Q&A with the Chair, early access to policy briefs one week before public release, name and recognition on the Founders Wall (opt-in), and a monthly behind-the-scenes update on the institute's research, policy, and operational work.
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The Institute of FAME, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity classified under IRS section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) — the preferred classification for foundation grants and individual donations. Contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
For any gift of $250 or more, the institute issues a contemporaneous written acknowledgment as required by IRS regulations. Receipts are sent by email; mailed acknowledgments are available on request.
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- Institute of FAME, Inc.
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- 501(c)(3) · 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)
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- Georgia (control # 16105972)
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