Ohio · Nonprofit
LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,543 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($207,174). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $539k
- Net assets
- $25M
What Legacy Ministries International does
Mission
Through prayerful dependence on god, dayton christian schools (lmi) provides a biblically integrated, academically rigorous educational experience. Instilling in students a love for christ and god's word, a love for learning, and a love for others. Inspiring students to approach scholarship, athletics, fine arts, and service as an act of worship. Equipping students to reach their full, god-given potential within the body of christ, to live out their faith with grace, wisdom and courage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of dayton christian school for grades pre-k - 12th, and home school serving 1,289 students.
$11,880,443 spent$14,093,336 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,880,443.
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 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $26M (+12%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Chris Brown
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $53k → $46k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’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
LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 68% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $533k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,543 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($207,174). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $538,543 in grants to LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $207,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 7 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