New York · Private foundation
Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $214k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $214k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $213k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $214k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $227k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $238k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontological Research Institution | $61,750 | 6 | 1% |
| The Child Development Council Inc | $54,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | $48,250 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Tompkins County Inc | $42,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Nutrition for the Elderly in Tompkins County Inc | $40,479 | 6 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Ithaca and Tompkins County | $35,325 | 5 | 0% |
| Cayuga Medical Center Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Finger Lakes Reuse Inc | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family & Children's Service of Ithaca Inc | $29,337 | 5 | 0% |
| Ithaca Community Childcare Center Inc | $29,250 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Norathco Foundation · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · Brooks Family Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Maguire Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County with peer funders
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About Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County
- How much does Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County give?
- Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County reported 61 grants totaling $214,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (14%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paleontological Research Institution ($62k), The Child Development Council Inc ($54k), Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ($48k).
- Does Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, Park Foundation Inc, United Way of Tompkins County Inc.
- Where is Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County based?
- Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County is based in NY.
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