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L&K 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of L&K Legacy Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Christian Foundation | $100,000 |
| West Nashville Dream Center | $13,740 |
| Franklin Road Academy Inc | $5,524 |
| Corner to Corner | $5,175 |
| Unmanageable | $5,166 |
| Street Works | $5,000 |
| BeWell In School | $5,000 |
| Fisk University | $5,000 |
| Healing Minds and Souls | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,676 |
| Goudeaux Family Foundation | $4,500 |
| Freedom in Christ Ministries | $518 |
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 (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +316% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- WNWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER4× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +316%
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2024 · $14k
- FRFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BWBethel World Outreach Churchone grant, 2019 · $100k
- NANEXLEGACY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $32k
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +44%
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.
Our mission at Do Right Christian Church is to transform lives and communities
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
To plant campus ministries to encourage students to accept jesus christ as lord and savior, to connect college students with god and establish them in christ's church, and to work in teams to pursue, model, and teach intimacy with god…
Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…
Our mission is to share the love of Christ with those who are most vulnerable in our community. We especially seek to equip children and young adults with the skills necessary for spiritual growth, academic achievement, life management,…
We serve men whose lives have fallen apart due to addiction, homelessness, or some other major life challenge. We provide discipleship, recovery homes, sober living communities, and work therapy.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
Our mission is simple yet profound, changing lives through christ. we want to help individuals come to christ, being redeemed by his blood and restored and transformed by his word. our goal is to assist individuals struggling with…
FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.
Provide counseling through assessments and counseling sessions. provided training program to churches and individuals.increase outreach in the community through social media and the web.
Unpack is a two-tiered approach to help women unpack the pain of their pasts as well as help them on the road to residency where they can unpack their things and make a home for themselves and their children. we work with single women…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Nashville Dream Center and the most unlike its peers is Healing Minds and Souls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
- Who funds UNMANAGEABLE ↗
- Who funds BeWell in School ↗
- Who funds STREET WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Healing Minds and Souls ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds GOUDEAUX FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH & WOMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM IN CHRIST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LEGER DOUZABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 L&K 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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