Oregon · Nonprofit
LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION
LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,520,427 to it, the largest being RMF FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Legacy Health Foundation does
Mission
Legacy Health Foundation (LHF) was incorporated on August 21, 2013. The mission of the foundation is to foster charitable giving as well as community commitment and involvement to support the founding principles, mission and vision of Legacy Health and promote the health and well-being of the community. Legacy Health is the sole corporate member of LHF.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At Legacy Health, we know that our legacy is something we create together every day. This is reflected in our mission of good health for our people, our patients, our communities and our world. We see it as our fundamental responsibility to improve the health and wellness of everyone we touch, empowering people to live healthier and better lives, and helping them create a legacy that truly lives on. Ours is a legacy of health and community, quality and innovation, respect and responsibility.Legacy Health was created in 1989 through the merger of HealthLink, a local four-hospital system, and Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center. Over the years Legacy has grown into the largest nonprofit, community-owned health system in the Portland/Vancouver area. Today, Legacy Health consists of an integrated network of six full-service hospitals and more than 50 clinics. The Legacy network provides acute and critical care, inpatient and outpatient treatment, urgent and primary care, and a variety of specialty services. At the heart of Legacys mission is our commitment to provide exceptional healthcare for all those in need. Legacy provides almost one-third of the charity care in the…
$9,308,705 spentof which $9,308,705 as grants$11,901,439 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,308,705.
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 2020 to 2021, from $17M to $38M (+122%).
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: 2017 29% · 2018 1% · 2019 10% · 2020 11% · 2021 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Jill A Nelson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $160k → $697k.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Columbia-Willamette). These are real filings, and they are not money LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
38% 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 LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 73% · 2021 39% · 2022 20% · 2023 36% — 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
29% of LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $994k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record.
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$50k
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Legacy Health · exempt
- Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center · exempt
- Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical · exempt
- Legacy Meridian Park Hospital · exempt
- Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION: 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 LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,520,427 to it, the largest being RMF FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,520,427 in grants to LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- RMF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing