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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $177,736, the rows itemized in this filing. The $189,946 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,210 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.
$18,916
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%CRISTO REY: $20k → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 9%ORIGAMI REHABILITATION: $29k → 16%DAVIES PROJECT: $19k → 16%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 5 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$224k
$48k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • GL
    GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK
    3× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +29%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties
    3× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +235%
  • LP
    Lansing Promise
    2× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • MS
    MSU SAFE PLACE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • MS
    MSU STUDENT FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
House of Providence

The organization is a therapeutic home for minors who are wards of the state of michigan

Human Services
2
House of Hope Midwest

The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.

Human Services
3
Hospice of Lansing

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…

Health
4
Christian Services Love Inc of Greater Lansing

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…

Human Services
5
Housing Services of Mid Michigan

To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc

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,…

Human Services
8
Macomb Residential Opportunities Inc

To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life

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9
Lenawee Emergency and Affordable Housing Corp

to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County

Housing & Shelter
10
Lighthouse of Oakland 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.

Human Services
11
Elijahs Promise Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $48,162 · OtherHOLY CROSS SERVICES INCMSU SAFE PLACE: $20,000 · OtherMSU SAFE PLACEMSU STUDENT FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherMSU STUDENT FOOD BANKENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES: $13,306 · OtherENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIESMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,574 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $45,845 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton…The House of Promise: $32,212 · Human ServicesThe House of PromiseUNIVERSITY REHABILITATION ALLIANCE INC: $28,661 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY REHABILITATION ALLIANCE…ELE'S PLACE INC: $50,576 · Youth DevelopmentELE'S PLACE INCGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK: $46,362 · Food & NutritionGREATER LANSING…Lansing Promise: $33,211 · EducationLansing Pr…
Other$109,042Human Services$106,718Youth Development$50,576Food & Nutrition$46,362Education$33,211

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

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
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.

Joe D Pentecost Found…Capital Region Commun…Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Izzo Legacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Izzo Legacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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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