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Amy's Legacy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $932k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $992k
- $250k+1 grant · $922k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $921,500 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| URBAN SKYE | $200,000 |
| BARNABAS RESOURCES | $150,000 |
| EFCA REACHGLOBAL | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| TRUE HOPE MINISTRY | $72,000 |
| SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR | $50,000 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| TEACH TO TRANSFORM | $50,000 |
| CHLSS | $44,850 |
| KENYA CHILDREN'S FUND | $44,500 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $40,000 |
| IDENTITY MISSION | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +139%
- THTRUE HOPE3× · 2018–2021 · $743k · revenue +51% · 61% of their budget
- TMTHE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC4× · 2018–2022 · $402k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- HRHOPE RIDESone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +1% · 36% of their budget
- UVURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -5%
- NHNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…
assisting orphans and missionary in need
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
Finding forever homes for children
To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rosebud House of Prayer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 134 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE HOPE ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Amistad Worldwide ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Urban Skye ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds KENYA CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR ↗
- Who funds HOPE RIDES ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSEBUD HOUSE OF PRAYER ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MICAH CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds TEACH TO TRANSFORM INC ↗
- Who funds FARM HAITI ↗
- Who funds Legacy Refuge ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Pure Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Ephesians 320 Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Our Rescue · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Luzerne Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Servant 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 organization Amy's Legacy Foundation 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.
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 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.
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