· Public charity
The Izzo Legacy
It is the mission of THE IZZO LEGACY to raise and administer funds that will feed the hungry, meet the needs of the underserved, reduce barriers to educational opportunities, and bring hope of a brighter future to communities in need by supporting qualified tax-exempt organizations that conduct charitable activities within the meaning of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $177,736 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $189,946 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,210 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORIGAMI REHABILITATION | $28,661 |
| HOLY CROSS SERVICES | $28,162 |
| ELE'S PLACE | $23,126 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $20,142 |
| CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,916 |
| DAVIES PROJECT | $18,536 |
| THE HOUSE OF PROMISE | $13,676 |
| ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES | $13,306 |
| LANSING PROMISE | $13,211 |
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 (FY19–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK3× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +29%
- CCCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties3× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +235%
- LPLansing Promise2× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- MSMSU SAFE PLACEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MSMSU STUDENT FOOD BANKone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
The organization is a therapeutic home for minors who are wards of the state of michigan
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
To provide comprehensive, high quality hospice services to meet medical, nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs for individuals facing the last stages of life, as well as emotional care for their families and friends; to conduct…
Christian Services serves as a resource center and clearinghouse matching resources of over 200 Lansing, MI area churches to needs from local indigent people. Coordination of Thanksgiving food baskets, clothes closets, and transitional…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Working in the spirit of Gods universal love, our mission is to nurture, stabilize and strengthen the diverse families of the Upper Peninsula Community by providing mental health and addiction counseling services, child welfare services,…
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County
To support lighthouse mi in their mission to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.
The Mission of Elijah's Promise is to Empower Lives through training, education and social services, Invite Justice thru opportunities for community service and advocacy and Alleviate Hunger by providing nutritious meals.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is The House of Promise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties ↗
- Who funds Lansing Promise ↗
- Who funds The House of Promise ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY REHABILITATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Capital Region Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Izzo Legacy 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.
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.