· Public charity
Legacy Global Foundation
Legacy blesses the whole earth through innovative, effective, ethical, and responsible charitable service and solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $3,852,808 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,722,818 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $870,010 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $766k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,225,026 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $612,000 |
| THEFORESIGHTINSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| LEGACY GLOBAL PROGRAMS INC | $489,369 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS | $187,277 |
| UPLIFT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $100,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $98,762 |
| THE OTHER SIDE VILLAGE | $80,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) GLOBAL SHIELD | $50,000 |
| CALLED TO SERVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $40,000 |
| A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY | $24,874 |
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 (FY17–23, $442k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% 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.
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 32% of Legacy Global Foundation’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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $640k · revenue +21%- MTMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $255k · revenue +58%
- ACA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- TATurrell Art Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15M · revenue -94% · 55% of their budget
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $569k · revenue +20%- SCSEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONgraduated2× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +63%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institution of Engineering and Technology Usa. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 121 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 Turrell Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Foresight Institute ↗
- Who funds Legacy Global Programs ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ocean Voyages Institute ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds NEW RENAISSANCE ARTS CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds World Indigenous Missions 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: Legacy Global Programs · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · University Impact · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Wheelwright Family Charitable Foundation · Community Trust of Utah · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jordan W and Julie a Clements Foundation
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 Global 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Legacy Global Foundation 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.