California · Nonprofit
LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL
LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,577 to it, the largest being SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($510,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-249605
What Legacy Youth Leadership International does
Mission
Legacy Youth Leadership (Legacy) is a nonprofit organization that is building better leaders who will build a better world. Legacy knows that young people are not just the future, they are the present. Legacy runs free youth leadership and mentoring programs in low-income school communities that teach students how to use their time, their money, their voice, and their vote so they can be leaders TODAY. We prioritize making our programs available to students living in low-income & underserved communities. Legacys Programs develop, mentor, and equip young people with the skills & experience they need to reach their academic goals, make a REAL impact on the world around them, and thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided our free leadership course to 3,600 students at 147 high school and college campuses in low income communities. Worked with students to develop critical leadership and entrepreneurship skills. Paired students who successfully completed our leadership program with adult mentors who invested over 60 mentorship hours to help them apply the skills they learned by completing service projects and launch entrepreneurial ventures. Conducted an intensive public speaking training program for a select 82 students. Provided an average of 40 hours of leadership development and mentoring to each student in our advanced leadership programs. Conduct high school and college speaking tours across america to educate students about social & humanitarian issues.
$1,379,316 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,379,316.
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 2021 to 2022, from $104k to $341k (+227%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Michelle O'Droske
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $16k → $443k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 YOUTH LEADERSHIP 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 YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 93% · 2022 19% · 2023 45% — 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
LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k 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 YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Thirst Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP 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 YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL?
- LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,577 to it, the largest being SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($510,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,219,577 in grants to LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL?
- SWANSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL 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.
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 19 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