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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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER | $10,843 |
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTONWILKES-BARRE | $10,000 |
| KENCREST CENTERS | $10,000 |
| BROOKFIELD SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT EAST | $5,900 |
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL-COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| TODAY IS A GOOD DAY | $5,000 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| BENSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +96% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TGTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +96%
- LOLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION2× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +91%
- LNLADACIN NETWORK INC3× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BBREASTCANCERORGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +206%
- MIMELMARK INCone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -18%
- TBTHE BIG SANDBOXone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
To provide high quality, community-based therapeutic, supportive, and preventive healthcare services for children, adolescents and families with mental health, development disability, and residential needs
Summary
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…
Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center At Hampton House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds LADACIN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KENCREST CENTERS ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds MELMARK INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKFIELD SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BEAN BAG FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds TODAY IS A GOOD DAY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER AT HAMPTON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc
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 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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