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The Legacy Institute

To advance public education and community development in colorado springs.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.4MHuman Services$860kEducation$423kCommunity Improvement$205kArts & Culture$126kYouth Development$94kFood & Nutrition$64kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $77,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $82,418 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,918 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$458k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOINT INITIATIVES YOUTH AND FAMILIE$35,000
PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
ATLAS PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
PARENTS CHALLENGE$7,500
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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 6 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$4.8M
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
-3%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UB
    USA Basketball
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3.4M · revenue +242%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $810k
  • AP
    Atlas Preparatory School Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • PP
    Pikes Peak Partnership
    one grant, 2018 · $185k
  • SE
    STRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $59k · revenue -9%
  • EM
    EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -45%
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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
Partners in Child Development Inc

To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…

Human Services
5
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
6
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
7
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
8
Pikes Peak Community Foundation

To inspire a passionate community to forge an enduring legacy now and for future generations. this mission is attained by building a community endowment, helping donors address community needs and providing philanthropic leadership.

Philanthropy
9
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
10
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
12
Prairie Crossing Charter School

We believe that children are our best hope to improve the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Challenge; the most unlike its peers is Concrete Couch. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USA Basketball: $3,367,184 · Recreation & SportsUSA BasketballCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC: $810,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF …Pikes Peak Partnership: $185,000 · OtherPikes Peak PartnershipJOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $35,000 · OtherAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $240,000 · EducationAtlas Prepa…PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · EducationPIKES PEAK …Hey Neighbor: $84,000 · EducationHey Neighbo…+2 more: $17,500 · EducationCONCRETE COUCH: $126,000 · Arts & CultureSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $59,000 · Youth DevelopmentEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Recreation & Sports$3,367,184Other$1,030,000Education$506,500Arts & Culture$126,000Youth Development$59,000Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetUSA Basketball: $3,367,184 over 3y, 23% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $240,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH: $126,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetHey Neighbor: $84,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $59,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJOINT INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Pikes Peak Community …El Pomar FoundationColorado Springs Heal…The Joseph Henry Edmo…The Colorado Health F…The Myron Stratton Ho…Pikes Peak United WayTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Delta Dental Plan of …Daniels FundMile High United Way …Natl Christian Charit…
Pikes Peak Community FoundationCO19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Legacy Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Legacy Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to The Legacy Institute?

    Find your warmest path to The Legacy Institute 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 13 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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