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· Private foundation
Legato Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$1.3M
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
3
Communities
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$360kHealth$101kCommunity Improvement$100kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$2kOther$461k
02FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- EL DORADO FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
- NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$100,000
- Leprino Foods Co Foundation$100,000
- Prostate Cancer Education Council$50,000
- MISSION HILLS CHURCH$24,000
- Cherry Hills Police Foundation$10,000
- GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 47% of Legato 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. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Legato Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 5 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +194% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
7
Total granted
$2.8M
$317k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+194%
+52%
Still filing today
60%
57%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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
- WVWarren Village4× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +194%
- EDEl Dorado Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +948208% · 61% of their budget
Navy Seal Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $360k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TGThe Greenlight Fundgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +215%
- RHRobbie's Hopeone grant, 2023 · $100k
St Jude Children's Research Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +74%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Relief International Inc
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve.
International
3
The Rockefeller Foundation
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4
El Dorado Foundation
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5
Children's Emergency Relief International
We envision a world where every child thrives in a loving family, a safe community, and a child-friendly society.
International
6
World Childrens Fund
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7
The David Rockefeller Fund Inc
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8
The Denver Foundation
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
Philanthropy
9
The Will Smith Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
Rockefeller family fund is a u.s. based, family-led public charity that initiates, cultivates, and funds strategic efforts to promote a sustainable, just, free, and participatory society.
Philanthropy
11
Habitat for Humanity International
Construction of homes to sell to qualified families in need at or below market value with no interest.
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12
Habitat for Humanity International
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roundup River Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Navy Seal 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.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$1,125,000Philanthropy$1,103,500Other$461,285Arts & Culture$360,000Health$101,000Community Improvement$100,000Recreation & Sports$10,000International$2,000
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 Warren Village ↗
- Who funds El Dorado Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Navy Seal Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Greenlight Fund ↗
- Who funds Prostate Cancer Education Council ↗
- Who funds St Jude Children's Research Hospital ↗
- Who funds Roundup River Ranch ↗
- Who funds Haven of Hope ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Legato 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: El Dorado Foundation Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9483.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 463250790 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on El Dorado Foundation Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Legato Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Legato Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines