Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEGACIES ALIVE
LEGACIES ALIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,540 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $230k
What Legacies Alive does
Mission
Legacies Alive's mission is to strengthen and support the gold star families of our nation's fallen heroes and bring national awareness to the life and character of all service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Founded by combat veterans, we feel a special connection with these families and are especially committed to our cause.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legacy projects - our team partners with gold star families to identify the legacies of our brave fallen heroes that have impacted their communities. Once we have precisely identified their individual legacies of our fallen heroes as service members and as unique individiuals. Legacy projects celebrate the lives of the fallen as members of the families and communities in which they so intimately touched. Legacies Alive recognizes that in addition to fighting for our freedom, every fallen hero was also part of their family and community. We work alongside these families to create legacy projects, that not only celebrate these heroes' sacrifice, but also who they were as members of their families and communities.
Gold star family events - we at Legacies Alive believe gold star families are the only ones who fully understand the burden they will forever endure. We feel it is our duty as an organization to build upon the support system around these families, therefore we host events that allow gold star family members to connect with our team, meet other gold star family members and talk about the legacies of their fallen heroes. These events help foster the healing process for our nation's gold star families and we are proud of the relationships that have developed as a result.
Army navy game experience - every year gold star families and Legacies Alive supportors from all over the country gather for an army navy experience like no other. It is an emotionally charged weekend filled with sharing stories of our american heroes, uniting gold star famalies, and fun rivalries. This is where our Legacies Alive family unites every year to honor, remember, and celbrate the lives of our fallen heroes.
Administrative time directly spent organizing events and fundraising
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $203k to $259k (+27%).
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.
102% of LEGACIES ALIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $7k → $53k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 LEGACIES ALIVE’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
LEGACIES ALIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
86% 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 LEGACIES ALIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 99% · 2020 78% · 2021 47% · 2022 93% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of LEGACIES ALIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of LEGACIES ALIVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $69k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
LEGACIES ALIVE is better cushioned than half of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like LEGACIES ALIVE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 LEGACIES ALIVE: 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 LEGACIES ALIVE?
- LEGACIES ALIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,540 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,550). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEGACIES ALIVE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $267,540 in grants to LEGACIES ALIVE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACIES ALIVE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACIES ALIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 21 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