· Public charity
Leaving a Positive Legacy Inc
To aid, support and assist by gifts, contributions, or otherwise, other corporations, community chests, funds, and foundations organized and operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes only.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $141,638 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $157,047 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,409 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT | $27,254 |
| HEALTH REEFS FOR HEALTHY PEOPLE | $22,602 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,047 |
| HANDS UP FOR HAITI | $20,000 |
| NOWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,006 |
| ROCK AND SOUL FOREVER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BACKLINE CARE | $6,021 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| RISE UP GRUNDY | $2,150 |
| LEADS INC | $2,000 |
| OUR VOICE - ASHEVILLE | $375 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY FARM | $375 |
| INDEPENDENT MUSIC AND ARTS OF ASHEVILLE | $356 |
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 US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($356k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($111k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 24% of all-years giving ($111k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 0% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- HUHANDS UP FOR HAITI INC5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue -23%
- GAGRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue 0%
- HRHealthy Reefs For Healthy People Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $33k
Funded once
Colorado Healing Fundone grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue -97%- RNROBINS NEST CHILDRENS HOMEone grant, 2024 · $30k
- MPMenos Plastico Projectone grant, 2023 · $22k
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 provide short term assistance resources to music professionals in times of need.
No Label is a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking down socioeconomic barriers in the music industry through educational initiatives and professional development programs. Through innovative partnerships and comprehensive training,…
To strengthen and save lives through music.
To provide songwriters and composers with resources, support, and programs in mental health, financial wellbeing, career development, and emergency funding to ensure healthy, fulfilling lives for all music creators as they navigate the…
The mission of the Foundation is to bridge musicians with their fans through the issues that touch their hearts. The Foundation was created with the realization that music touches the lives of young people in ways directly connected to…
Comprised of musicians, music industry professionals and fans, music for relief is dedicated to providing aid to natural disaster survivors and protecting the environment.
Give a beat's mission is to use the power of music as a pathway to healing and opportunity for those impacted by the criminal justice system.
We work to bring music and musicians to the children of haiti and other parts of the world. we are designed to teach and inspire children, using music as a powerful force for education, creativity and healing.
Public awareness about suicide prevention
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leads and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Grundy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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 HANDS UP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
- Who funds Healthy Reefs For Healthy People Inc ↗
- Who funds NOWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK AND SOUL FOREVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RISE UP GRUNDY ↗
- Who funds LEADS ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Leaving a Positive Legacy Inc 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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