· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($111k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -96%- RNROBINS NEST CHILDRENS HOMEone grant, 2024 · $30k
- MPMenos Plastico Projectone grant, 2023 · $22k
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.
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.
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.
Public awareness about suicide prevention
Deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leaving a Positive Legacy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leaving a Positive Legacy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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