California · Nonprofit
KATHYS LEGACY INC
KATHYS LEGACY INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $0
What Kathys Legacy Inc does
Mission
Kathy's Legacy Foundation serves children and pets impacted by domestic violence. We revive hope, restore normalcy, and inspire dreams in the lives of children orphaned by intimate partner violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Silver Lining - The program assists children whose lives are traumatically altered by the murder of a parent due to domestic violence. It provides monthly financial assistance to help with food, clothing, toiletries, household supplies, and gas. It also funds guardianship fees, legal name changes, furniture, therapy, dental, and orthodontic treatment. We provide opportunities for normalcy such as art, dance lessons, sports, and summer camps and cover the cost of opportunities that would otherwise be unaffordable. Silver Lining sees to the basic yet critical needs of these children and provides normalcy in their lives so they can experience the lost joys of childhood.Lady's Legacy - We provide foster care for the pets while the victim receives shelter assistance. We are resolved to establish a support system for victims and their pets to co-shelter upon leaving an abusive situation.
$164,739 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,739.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $64k to $138k (+117%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KATHYS LEGACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KATHYS LEGACY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KATHYS LEGACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 75% · 2022 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of KATHYS LEGACY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like KATHYS LEGACY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KATHYS LEGACY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KATHYS LEGACY INC?
- KATHYS LEGACY INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,600 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KATHYS LEGACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $122,600 in grants to KATHYS LEGACY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KATHYS LEGACY INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KATHYS LEGACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing