Texas · Private foundation
The Legett Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 136
- Grants FY2024
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 116 to 135
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $112M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Legett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 126 | $7.9M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 116 | $12M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 130 | $9.5M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 126 | $10M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 135 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $8,503,888 | 5 | 0% |
| Abilene Heritage Square Inc | $5,000,000 | 4 | 43% |
| Abilene Improvement Corporation | $3,237,500 | 2 | 19% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $2,691,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Hardin-Simmons University | $1,701,000 | 3 | 1% |
| West Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation | $1,683,667 | 1 | 13% |
| Abilene Zoological Society | $1,515,000 | 4 | 38% |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $1,400,000 | 3 | 4% |
| McMurry University | $1,150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| West Texas A&M Univ Foundation | $910,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 241 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Legett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · M K Brown Foundation Inc · Abilene Christian University
How this is measured
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About The Legett Foundation
- How much does The Legett Foundation give?
- The Legett Foundation reported 136 grants totaling $12,562,078 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 116 and 135 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Legett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Legett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Texas Christian University ($8.5M), Abilene Heritage Square Inc ($5.0M), Abilene Improvement Corporation ($3.2M).
- Does The Legett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Legett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Legett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kickapoo Springs Foundation, Dian Graves Owen Foundation, The Karakin Foundation.
- Where is The Legett Foundation based?
- The Legett Foundation is based in TX.
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