North Carolina · Private foundation
Legatus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $716k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $177,256
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 46
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Legatus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $663k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $549k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $698k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $487k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $473k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $806,194 | 5 | 1% |
| Wake Forest University | $780,874 | 5 | 0% |
| Piedmont Land Conservancy | $282,871 | 3 | 5% |
| Canterbury School | $175,615 | 3 | n/a |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $151,900 | 5 | 1% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Martin County Inc | $38,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Jupiter Island Medical Clinic Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County | $23,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Legatus Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat · St Clair Charitable Trust · Colket Family Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · CMB Foundation · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Cox Foundation Inc · The Krimendahlsaint-Amand Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Nelson Mead Fund
How this is measured
About Legatus Foundation
- How much does Legatus Foundation give?
- Legatus Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $716,023 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Legatus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Education (29%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Legatus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Everglades Foundation Inc ($806k), Wake Forest University ($781k), Piedmont Land Conservancy ($283k).
- Does Legatus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Legatus Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legatus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat, St Clair Charitable Trust, Colket Family Foundation.
- Where is Legatus Foundation based?
- Legatus Foundation is based in NC.
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