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Legacy Global Foundation

Legacy blesses the whole earth through innovative, effective, ethical, and responsible charitable service and solutions.

$4.7M
Granted FY2023
29
Grants FY2023
14
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$15MHealth$3.6MPhilanthropy$2.9MReligion$2.3MEducation$1.4MInternational$759kScience & Tech$660kPublic Safety & Disaster$640kOther$0
02FY2023 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $3,852,808, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,722,818 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $870,010 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $766k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
$24,874
Median grant
14
States reached
$267M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CALLED TO SERVE FOUNDATION$50,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) GLOBAL SHIELD$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$40,000
A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION$35,000
THE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY$24,874
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RISE UP INDUSTRIES INC: $10k → 11%A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%ABLE INCORPORATED: $20k → 9%ARIVACA BOYS RANCH: $12k → 15%A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $55k → 8%SEEDING MERCY: $10k → 11%BRAILLE INSTITUTE: $23k → 14%A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%SANDY CLUB: $82k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $20k → 8%SANDY CLUB: $20k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $25k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 32% of Legacy Global Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Legacy Global Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 23 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
75

Total granted

$7.2M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $640k · revenue +21%
  • MT
    MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $255k · revenue +58%
  • AC
    A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $160k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • TA
    Turrell Art Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $15M · revenue -94% · 55% of their budget
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $569k · revenue +20%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    2× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +63%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
6
The George Washington University

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…

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
10
Augustana College

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…

Education
11
Claremont Graduate University

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…

Education
12
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/107
Grantees still filing
65/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Turrell Art Foundation: $14,881,650 · Arts & CultureTurrell Art Foundation+6 more: $240,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $1,880,758 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHR…BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,225,026 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITA…CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $213,793 · OtherThe Foresight Institute: $500,000 · OtherThe Foresight Institute+68 more: $2,244,265 · Other+68 moreJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $3,069,473 · HealthJOSLIN DIABET…+10 more: $334,324 · Health+10 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $640,041 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $568,858 · InternationalAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $65,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalSEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $500,000 · EducationMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $111,000 · EducationEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $100,000 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGE: $100,000 · Education+15 more: $213,123 · EducationLegacy Global Programs: $489,369 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $198,020 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $171,000 · PhilanthropyUPLIFT FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $30,500 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $612,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$15,121,650Other$6,063,842Health$3,403,797International$1,283,899Education$1,279,123Philanthropy$1,038,889Community Improvement$612,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTurrell Art Foundation: $14,881,650 over 1y, 55% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $3,069,473 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $640,041 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $612,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $568,858 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetThe Foresight Institute: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLegacy Global Programs: $489,369 over 2y, 11% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $198,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $171,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetUPLIFT FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE SANDY CLUB: $142,256 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $114,567 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $111,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute: $105,399 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100,967 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $65,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE: $55,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Indigenous Missions Inc: $44,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAINBOW NETWORK INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $33,458 over 2y, 14% of budgetZAMBIAS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST FELIX PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC: $27,015 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WEST: $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE GILCREASE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $22,794 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuttle Education Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,669 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $13,669 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Legacy Global ProgramsSorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…George S and Dolores …University ImpactLarry H Miller and Ga…Wheelwright Family Ch…Community Trust of Ut…The Kahlert Foundatio…Arizona Community Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jordan W and Julie a …
Legacy Global ProgramsAZ59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Legacy Global Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legacy Global Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Legacy Global Foundation?

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $8.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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