· Community foundation
Legacy Foundation Inc
The legacy foundation, inc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BALL STATE UNIVERSITY 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 61% of Legacy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 40%.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
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 provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Insight development corporation fosters low-income housing in and around indianapolis, indiana and the surrounding community.
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
Provide resources for low income clients.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
How this is measured
162 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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