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Amy's Legacy Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$922k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$4.5MReligion$4.0MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$796kHealth$134kYouth Development$59kEmployment$50kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $932k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $992k
  • $250k+1 grant · $922k
$25,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$226k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $10k → 10%Hope House: $50k → 13%LEGACY REFUGE: $30k → 6%NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $5k → 11%Bring Me Hope Foundation: $1k → 14%Family Connections: $5k → 15%HEART OF THE CITY: $10k → 8%The Gladney Center for Adoption: $10k → 11%HOPE ADOPTION INC: $10k → 14%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $6k → 16%Benjamin House Ministries: $115k → 15%Children of the World: $3k → 13%Reece's Rainbow: $15k → 7%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 15%SHOW HOPE: $150k → 4%HOLSTON UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 17%BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $50k → 26%GLOBAL ADOPTION SERVICES: $10k → 7%Hope House: $30k → 13%TRUE HOPE: $374k → 5%HEART OF THE CITY: $5k → 8%BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $30k → 15%Reece's Rainbow: $9k → 7%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10k → 15%Show Hope: $128k → 4%True Hope: $313k → 5%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MN: $20k → 14%BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 15%Show Hope: $100k → 4%True Hope: $56k → 5%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MN: $15k → 14%Benjamin House Ministries: $3k → 15%SHOW HOPE: $10k → 4%AMERICA WORLD ADOPTION: $10k → 6%BREAKING FREE: $10k → 14%Breaking Free Inc: $10k → 14%BREAKING FREE INC: $10k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $20k → 14%Together for Good: $20k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%ROSEBUD HOUSE OF PRAYER: $57k → 14%ROSEBUD HOUSE OF PRAYER: $31k → 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

VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 53 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
43

Total granted

$10M
$504k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+5%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +139%
  • TH
    TRUE HOPE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $743k · revenue +51% · 61% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $402k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • HR
    HOPE RIDES
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +1% · 36% of their budget
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +19%
  • UV
    URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -5%
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
Hilo Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
2
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
3
Child Hope International

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption Inc
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5
Hope for the Fatherless

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…

International
6
Orphans Hope International
—
7
Zion Orphan Home
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8
United in Love Adoptions
Human Services
9
Kids for Him

assisting orphans and missionary in need

International
10
Prepare the Way Ministry

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

International
11
Deliver Rescuing Children At Risk

Finding forever homes for children

Human Services
12
A Child's Hope International

To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
35/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF GOD WORLD MISSIONS: $530,500 · OtherCHURCH OF GOD WORLD MISSIONSTRUE HOPE MINISTRY: $520,750 · OtherTRUE HOPE MINISTRYTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA: $286,500 · OtherTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICABETHEL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $266,000 · OtherBETHEL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPGlobal Impact Missions: $242,300 · OtherGlobal Impact MissionsVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC: $225,000 · OtherVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCSIM USA INCORPORATED: $200,000 · OtherYWAM ORGANIC: $177,000 · Other+74 more: $1,556,870 · Other+74 moreLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $2,739,700 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCTHE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC: $401,500 · InternationalTHE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INCKENYA CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $146,000 · International+7 more: $242,095 · International+7 moreTRUE HOPE: $742,700 · Human ServicesTRUE HOPESHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $638,000 · Human ServicesSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC…BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $222,500 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN HOUSE MINIS…ROSEBUD HOUSE OF PRAYER: $88,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $80,000 · Human Services+19 more: $315,150 · Human Services+19 moreAmistad Worldwide: $324,900 · ReligionAmistad Wo…Urban Skye: $200,000 · ReligionUrban SkyeBARNABAS RESOURCES: $150,000 · ReligionBARNABAS R…SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $125,000 · ReligionSOUL SURVI…MICAH CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 · ReligionMICAH CORN…FARM HAITI: $45,000 · ReligionMobile Hope: $35,000 · Religion+4 more: $80,000 · Religion+4 moreHOPE FARM SCHOOL: $402,750 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $375,000 · Education+1 more: $8,250 · EducationHOPE RIDES: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyT-NET INTERNATIONAL: $7,400 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,004,920International$3,529,295Human Services$2,086,350Religion$1,029,900Education$786,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Philanthropy$42,400

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 budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $2,739,700 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTRUE HOPE: $742,700 over 3y, 61% of budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $638,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHOPE FARM SCHOOL: $402,750 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC: $401,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $375,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmistad Worldwide: $324,900 over 7y, 23% of budgetBENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $222,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetUrban Skye: $200,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBARNABAS RESOURCES: $150,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetKENYA CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $146,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $125,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetHOPE RIDES: $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetNEW HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $90,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetROSEBUD HOUSE OF PRAYER: $88,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetIDENTITY MISSION: $82,345 over 4y, 10% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMICAH CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $60,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTEACH TO TRANSFORM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFARM HAITI: $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLegacy Refuge: $38,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $35,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMobile Hope: $35,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHaiti Teen Challenge: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBreaking Free Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $26,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHaven Acres: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREECE'S RAINBOW INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SACRED PORTION CHILDRENS OUTREACH INC: $23,650 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $23,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING PARAGUAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetAnselm House: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HORIZONS ADOPTION AGENCY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCan Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp): $13,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFriends of Africa Education: $12,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetAMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Adoption Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSTORIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Pure IncThe Signatry Charitab…Ephesians 320 Foundat…Christian Community F…Our RescueNatl Christian Charit…Thrivent Charitable I…The Luzerne FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…South Carolina Christ…Servant Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN17.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Amy's Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy's Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Amy's Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amy's Legacy Foundation 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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