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Legacy Foundation Inc
The legacy foundation, inc.
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.
The 83 grants below total $3,774,322 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,377,632 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,603,310 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $672k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $787k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF MERRILLVILLE | $787,320 |
| TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC | $217,504 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $177,000 |
| DUNES LEARNING CENTER | $163,221 |
| IVY TECH EAST CHICAGO | $150,084 |
| VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY - OFFICE OF | $150,000 |
| CALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH | $118,353 |
| LAKESHORE PUBLIC MEDIA | $112,179 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $79,285 |
| MOUNTAIN GATE | $75,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER | $74,333 |
| HOBART FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED | $66,035 |
| HAMMOND COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $62,489 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 61% of Legacy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 22 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $736k 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
- TSTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $853k · revenue +57%
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $791k · revenue +91%
Indiana University Foundation2× · 2021–2023 · $713k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SHORE ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $177k · revenue -18%
- OIOAI Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +41%
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INCone grant, 2021 · $54k · revenue +12%
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 empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Through information exchange, we improve health and healthcare.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Coast Communities dba Greenprint Communities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HAMMOND COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF CHICAGO SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CALUMET AREA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HAMMOND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARMELITE SISTERSHOME FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Gary Alumni Pathway to Students Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE 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: John W Anderson Foundation · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lake Area United Way Inc · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Sourlis Irrevocable Charitable Trust · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation 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 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
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.