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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…

$190k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$178k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$18,916
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,661
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Izzo Legacy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$178k38%
FY20233$22k33%
FY20211$6k0%
FY20197$140kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$146kFood & Nutrition$66kEducation$41kYouth Development$31kHealth$29kCrime & Legal$20kHousing & Shelter$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ele's Place Inc$50,57631%
Holy Cross Services Inc$48,16220%
Greater Lansing Food Bank$46,36230%
Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties$45,84531%
Lansing Promise$33,21123%
The House of Promise$32,21212%
University Rehabilitation Alliance Inc$28,66110%
Msu Student Food Bank$20,0001n/a
Endeavor House Ministries$13,30614%
Michigan State University$7,5741n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Izzo Legacy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEle's Place Inc: $50,576 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHoly Cross Services Inc: $48,162 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Lansing Food Bank: $46,362 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $45,845 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLansing Promise: $33,211 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetThe House of Promise: $32,212 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity Rehabilitation Alliance Inc: $28,661 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEndeavor House Ministries: $13,306 over 1y, 3.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Joe D Pentecost FoundationMI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Izzo Legacy

How much does The Izzo Legacy give?
The Izzo Legacy reported 9 itemized grants totaling $177,736, out of $189,946 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Izzo Legacy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Education (12%).
Who are The Izzo Legacy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ele's Place Inc ($51k), Holy Cross Services Inc ($48k), Greater Lansing Food Bank ($46k).
Does The Izzo Legacy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Izzo Legacy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joe D Pentecost Foundation, Capital Region Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Where is The Izzo Legacy based?
The Izzo Legacy is based in MI.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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