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The Karen Legotte Foundation Inc

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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$185kPublic Benefit$69kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$24kYouth Development$15kEducation$7kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $1k → 11%GIVING FRIENDS: $11k → 28%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
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TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$251k · 10 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +112% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
37

Total granted

$251k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MH
    MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +112%
  • TF
    The Farm School Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +68%
  • MF
    MONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • GF
    GIVING FRIENDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +182%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
3
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
4
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
5
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
7
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
8
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
10
City Growers Inc

Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…

Food & Nutrition
11
Peace Islands Institute New York Inc
Religion
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Dynamo Inc. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK — $183,575 · EnvironmentCONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentIndividual grant recipient — $21,547 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $14,307 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE — $12,639 · OtherSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGEIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMADD — $5,150 · OtherPIERRE GONZALEZ GO FUND ME — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+30 more — $25,920 · Other+30 moreMONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,660 · Arts & CultureGIVING FRIENDS INC — $10,510 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $1,021 · Human ServicesTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $5,000 · EducationPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $500 · EducationEast End Foundation — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · Health
Environment$184,575Other$114,563Arts & Culture$11,660Human Services$11,531Education$5,500Community Improvement$5,000Health$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK — $183,575 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetMONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,660 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIVING FRIENDS INC — $10,510 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Farm School Inc — $2,076 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $1,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC — $1,049 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $1,021 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK FOOD PANTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREES 78 FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALEN INSTITUTE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DYNAMO INC — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK
  • Who funds MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds GIVING FRIENDS INC
  • Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY
  • Who funds East End Foundation
  • Who funds The Farm School Inc
  • Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds MONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG
  • Who funds GLASSROOTS INC
  • Who funds ONE SIMPLE WISH INC
  • Who funds MONTAUK FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds TREES 78 FOUNDATION
  • Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

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.

WD and JG McCoy Family Foundation IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WD and JG McCoy Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Karen Legotte Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • The Farm School Inc12% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc5% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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