California · Nonprofit
LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS
LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,057,133 to it, the largest being MULTIPLIER ($1,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Legacy Philanthropy Works does
Mission
We are a community of catalytic changemakers supporting community-driven and place-based change initiatives that enable communities, landscapes and economies to thrive. We facilitate and support partnerships and collaboratives, develop strategies and plans, mobilize innovative impact finance, and provide a wide range of consulting and support services to achieve our mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collaborative initiative facilitation and partnership support - we support community-driven, place-based partnerships and collaboratives that create resilient communities and landscapes. We serve as a support organization and provide a variety of services to help partnerships develop plans, identify impact opportunities through community engagement, launch catalytic initiatives, resource emergent follow-on opportunities, mobilize funding and full spectrum capital, develop communications, build capacity, and steward partnership development towards a virtuous cycle that leads to greater collaboration and investment in systems scale change.
$2,642,553 spentof which $10,000 as grants$2,716,484 earned by the program74% of program spendingImpact finance consulting and infrastructure - we help funders, nonprofit organizations, collaborations and communities identify opportunities, diligence, plan, and implement impact finance initiatives. We undertake feasibility and market studies. We support impact finance iniatives at scales from single projects to the creation of funds or other product offerings to community-wide impact investing initiatives. We provide shared infrastructure, systems and services to facilitate the creation of such initiatives.
$455,302 spent$324,386 earned by the program13% of program spendingCapacity support services - we provide aligned organizations with additional capacity and expertise needed to launch new programs and organizations, take on new projects, develop communication and marketing programs, design and implement fundraising campaigns, develop gis, mapping, database or technology solutions, and more. We design and facilitate community engagement processes, planning sessions, leadership development programs, trainings, and other personal and professional development programs. These smaller scale engagements often build relationships that lead to bigger project opportunities.
$420,694 spent$138,001 earned by the program12% of program spendingImpact initiative planning and consulting - we provide consulting and planning services to agencies, funders, nonprofits, social enterprises, impact funds, partnerships and communities. We develop strategies and implementation plans for initiatives of all scales from single projects to foundation, nonprofit and social enterprise strategies to large scale collaborative initiatives and public private partnerships (including multi-party, cross-sector collaborations and agency coalitions) to funds and ventures. Our plans include funding strategies that tap into a range of capital sources from philanthropy to debt to impact investment capital.
$41,231 spent$69,644 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,559,780.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $7.8M (+381%).
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: 2018 22% · 2020 7% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Amy Verbeten
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $40k → $475k.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PHILANTHROPY WORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 PHILANTHROPY WORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 PHILANTHROPY WORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 31% · 2019 28% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 45% · 2023 29% — 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
19% of LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 PHILANTHROPY WORKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.8M on record.
- Department of Defense$17.8M
- Department of Agriculture$3.0M
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 PHILANTHROPY WORKS
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
30%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fv Ct 20 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS?
- LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,057,133 to it, the largest being MULTIPLIER ($1,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,057,133 in grants to LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS?
- MULTIPLIER is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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