Legacy Global Programs
Mesa, AZ · EIN 20-8099462. Reported 63 grants totalling $7,560,535 to 57 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Legacy Global Programs, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 28% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,016 and $104,100; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,152,565. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donor Advised Charitable Giving | Lone Tree, CO | $2,152,565 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thoughtful Tech Project Inc | Covina, CA | $990,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Salt Lake City, UT | $570,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legacy Global Programs | Mesa, AZ | $522,431 | 5 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yucatan Education Project | Seattle, WA | $487,104 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dechomai Foundation Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $346,105 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virgin Unite USA Inc | New York, NY | $246,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Intermountain Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Sports Commission Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Freedoms Inc | Altadena, CA | $192,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Uplift Foundation | Castle Rock, CO | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Founders Pledge Inc | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Population Services International | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Venice Family Clinic | Venice, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ocean Voyages Institute | Sausalito, CA | $122,146 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trees for the Future Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $100,376 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seattle Christian School Assn Inc | Seatac, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Film Center Dba Salt Lake City Film Center and | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legacy Global Foundation Inc | Mesa, AZ | $59,633 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation | Glenside, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Especially for Athletes Inc | Bluffdale, UT | $40,337 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway for Cancer Research Inc | Chicago, IL | $39,710 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brees Dream Foundation | Independence, OH | $39,651 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beloit College | Beloit, WI | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pleasant Valley Community Council | Arcadia, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gilbert Fine Arts Association | Mesa, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Road Home | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women Arise | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Indigenous Missions Inc | New Braunfels, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Everyday Hero Project Inc | Hillsboro, OR | $13,583 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Save the Redwoods League | San Francisco, CA | $12,615 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology USA | Edison, NJ | $12,263 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Visitors | Phoenix, AZ | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Help Start Education Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parents Television Council Inc | Burbank, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Paul Catholic Center Bloomington Inc | Bloomington, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Climate Initiative | Cape Porpoise, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Sherry Black Foundation | Sandy, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Winston Salem Foundation | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Nonprofits Association Inc | Murray, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Knowledge Impact Network | Marshall, VA | $9,016 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hale Center Foundation for the Arts and Education | Pleasant Grv, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cavett Kids Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Day School Inc | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Church of Biocentrism Inc | Plymouth, VT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Culver Educational Foundation | Culver, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deseret International Charities | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Give Beauty Wings Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Magnalia Homestead Foundation | Stokesdale, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rising Star Outreach Inc | Provo, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tatter Blue Archives Institute | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Laundromat Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Undefeatedd | Saratoga Spgs, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban School of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
0 of 57 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 | $397,912 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 49 | $7,162,623 | $34,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
31% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Legacy Global Programs's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 49 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4435 E Holmes Ave Ste 200, Mesa, AZ, 85206.
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