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· Public charity

Operation Legacy Foundation Inc

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc.

$2.7M
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

85% of Operation Legacy Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Operation Legacy Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’20
4
’21
8
’22
7
’23
11
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$13MPhilanthropy$7.2MPublic Benefit$2.2MYouth Development$650kInternational$550kHuman Services$400kHealth$300kCrime & Legal$100kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $2,037,570, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,674,096 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $636,526 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION MOBILIZATION$1,100,000
NEW REFORMATIONS PUBLICATIONS DBA 1517$500,000
STAR ROCK MINISTRIES$150,000
SEEDS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING$150,000
STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC$100,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$22,520
CITY TO CITY LOS ANGELES$10,000
PIONEERS$5,050
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 (FY20–24, $859k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $100k → 10%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $359k → 13%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $250k → 7%BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$16M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+97%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $839k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NR
    NEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +93% · 81% of their budget
  • SR
    STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +108%
  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $400k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +97%
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Next Generation for Christ Inc

Ministry coaching and training--provided coaching and training in ministry, mission, and evangelism for churches,church leaders and christian non-profits christian video production--filmed and produced christian bible series for use by…

Human Services
3
For the Gospel Ministries

Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…

Religion
4
Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries

To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.

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5
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
6
Uncharted Ministries

Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.

Religion
7
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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8
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
9
Explore God Network
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10
Soldout Ministries

Spreading the gospel of jesus christ through evangelists and resources.

Religion
11
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Storymakers Nyc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS: $11,325,000 · ReligionNEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS+1 more: $150,000 · ReligionNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $7,172,774 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION MOBILIZATION: $2,785,000 · OtherOPERATION MOB…+2 more: $114,762 · OtherBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $359,103 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $100,000 · Human ServicesSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $650,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $300,000 · HealthSTANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC: $200,000 · HealthPlay Higher Futbol Club Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGE TO TURKIYE: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Religion$11,475,000Philanthropy$7,702,774Other$2,899,762Human Services$859,103Youth Development$650,000Health$500,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS: $11,325,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $7,172,774 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $650,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $359,103 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSEEDS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $300,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetSTANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSTORYMAKERS NYC: $150,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBRIDGE TO TURKIYE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCITY TO CITY SOCAL: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Operation Legacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operation Legacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Operation Legacy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Operation Legacy Foundation Inc 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 16 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.

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