· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $502k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $177,256 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $174,837 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $75,016 |
| WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION(THE) | $75,016 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY(THE) | $48,398 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $35,400 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $10,000 |
| SUMMIT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION FUND (THE) | $5,000 |
| BANNER LAKE CLUB INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $806k · revenue +115%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $781k · revenue +45%- HSHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $152k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF PAWLEYS ISLAND SCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MPMOUNT PISGAH CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WFWAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 77 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 THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Legatus 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 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.