How much does Legacytree Foundation give?

Legacytree Foundation reported 64 itemized grants totaling $1,318,563, out of $1,483,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Legacytree Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (60%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Legacytree Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Send Musicians To Prison ($923k), Feed America First of Tennessee ($821k), Mercy Multiplied America Inc ($459k).

Does Legacytree Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Legacytree Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Ramsey Family Foundation Trust, Servant Foundation.

Where is Legacytree Foundation based?

Legacytree Foundation is based in TN.

Legacytree Foundation

Legacytree Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Legacytree Foundation

To provide spiritual, physical and humanitarian aid to those in need.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$116k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$4.6MFood & Nutrition$828kHuman Services$658kReligion$448kEducation$301kHealth$270kAnimals$176kCommunity Improvement$175kOther$0

02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 64 grants below total $1,318,563, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,483,735 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $165,172 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 · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $100k
$10k–50k43 grants · $754k
$50k–250k6 grants · $464k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$79M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FEED AMERICA FIRST	$116,163
BRIDGE TO HOPE WOC INC	$100,000
SEND MUSICIANS TO PRISON	$84,000
FREEDOM'S PROMISE	$60,000
DANITA'S CHILDREN	$54,000
MERCY MULTIPLIED	$50,000
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE	$45,000
HORIZON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY	$40,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$34,207
THE SPRING BRETHEN IN CHRIST	$34,023
HOPE INTERNATIONAL	$30,000
SAVAGE MINISTRIES	$25,000
SADDLES OF JOY INC	$25,000
CUL2VATE	$25,000
CARING FOR CAMBODIA	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.5M · 56 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147

Total granted

$5.5M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+39%

Still filing today

68%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionInternationalOther

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

SM
Send Musicians To Prison
9× · 2017–2025 · $923k · revenue +23% · 78% of their budget
FA
FEED AMERICA FIRST OF TENNESSEE
9× · 2017–2025 · $821k · revenue +2%
MM
MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $459k · revenue +10%

Funded once

TA
THE ARC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +38%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +177%
GU
GERMAN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
one grant, 2020 · $43k

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.

Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education

Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

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

Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health

Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education

Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Truth Love and Compassion Charitable Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 237 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

136/140

Grantees still filing

96/140

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,167,667Health$1,014,696Community Improvement$932,500Food & Nutrition$828,402International$746,070Education$436,502Religion$403,999

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN16.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ramsey Family Foundation Trust · Servant Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · GiveClear Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dignity Health · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Legacytree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legacytree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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