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Legacy Connection

Legacy Connection's mission is to enhace the quality of life and health of these we serve.

$206k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Youth Development$210kHuman Services$115kEducation$53kFood & Nutrition$50k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $167,418, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,251 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Back To School Clothing Drive Assoc$112,015
GENYOUth Inc$50,000
Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona$5,403
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 (FY19–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $5k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $35k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX ARIZONA: $29k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $25k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $16k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $5k → 11%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 3 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +242% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$309k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+242%
+61%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BT
    BACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING DRIVE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $172k · revenue -29%
  • DD
    Delivering Dreams of Arizona
    5× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +242%
  • AD
    ALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k

Funded once

  • SC
    SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • NC
    NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +61%
  • AD
    ALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +0%
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
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Arizona

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
2
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Foundation

To receive , hold and invest gifts and contributions for the benefit of the boys & girls clubs of greater scottsdale, inc .

Philanthropy
3
Arizona School Administrators Inc

To promote and support educational excellence in educational leadership

Education
4
Valley Christian Schools

The mission of valley christian schools is to equip students to be culture changers for christ by delivering academic excellence, facilitating spiritual growth, and building lifelong community.

Education
5
Ball Charter Schools(Dobson)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
6
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
7
Fiesta Sports Foundation

The fiesta sports foundation is home to the premier college football playoff postseason game, the vrbo fiesta bowl, the fan-friendly rate bowl and multiple year-round live sports and entertainment events that fuel our mission to deliver…

—
8
Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
9
Prescott Valley Charter School

To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.

Education
10
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

—
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County

Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.

Recreation & Sports
12
Eagle Arizona

To operate a charter school and educate children. students graduate from eagle well prepared to become inspirations to their families, leaders in their communities, and successes in their workplace.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scottsdale Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of the Colorado River. 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

8 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING DRIVE ASSOCIATION: $171,970 · OtherBACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING DRIVE ASSOCIATIONALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INC: $21,700 · OtherALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INCNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $16,780 · OtherNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INC: $14,400 · OtherALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLORADO RIVER: $13,275 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLORADO RIVERDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $114,947 · Human ServicesDelivering Dreams of ArizonaGenYOUTH Incorporated: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGenYOUTH Inco…SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25,000 · Health
Other$238,125Human Services$114,947Philanthropy$50,000Health$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHING DRIVE ASSOCIATION: $171,970 over 3y, 15% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $114,947 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALPHA DELTA KAPPA SORORITY INC: $14,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLORADO RIVER: $13,275 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

BHHS Legacy FoundationAZ19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BHHS Legacy Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Legacy Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legacy Connection. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Legacy Connection?

    Find your warmest path to Legacy Connection 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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $200k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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