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Legacy Community Health Services Inc

Houston, TX · EIN 76-0009637. Reported 44 grants totalling $5,690,719 to 29 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$5,690,719granted, 2020-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
48%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Legacy Community Health Services Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 48% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $2,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Montrose CenterHouston, TX$2,724,184442023
Southern Smoke FoundationHouston, TX$2,500,000112020
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$71,000442024
Greater Houston Partnership IncHouston, TX$67,250222024
Pride Houston IncHouston, TX$42,000442024
Cristo Rey Work Study ProgramHouston, TX$39,145222023
Greater Houston Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Chamber of CoHouston, TX$32,500222024
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy FoundationHouston, TX$23,800222024
Normal Anomaly Initiative IncHouston, TX$22,650332023
Houston Civic Events IncHouston, TX$16,000112021
Performing Arts HoustonHouston, TX$13,500112024
Crohns & Colitis Foundation IncNew York, NY$12,500112023
Bunnies on the Bayou IncHouston, TX$10,000112021
Fifth Ward Community RedevelopmentHouston, TX$10,000112021
Houston Civic Events IncHouston, TX$10,000112023
Houston Hispanic Chamber of CommerceHouston, TX$10,000112022
Houston Zoo IncHouston, TX$10,000112021
Pflag Beaumont-Southeast TxBeaumont, TX$8,000112024
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Free Mammogram ProgramBeaumont, TX$7,500112023
University of HoustonHouston, TX$7,500112024
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association IncChicago, IL$7,000112022
Latin Womens InitiativeHouston, TX$6,500112024
Association for the Advancement of Mexican AmericansHouston, TX$6,000112023
Discovery Green ConservancyHouston, TX$6,000112021
Houston Business JournalHouston, TX$6,000112024
Lgbtq Victory Fund IncWashington, DC$6,000112022
Pflag HoustonHouston, TX$5,500112021
Integrity Health Group IncPearland, TX$5,150112023
AIDS Foundation Houston IncHouston, TX$5,040112022

8 of 29 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 10 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Diseases & Disorders
6 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Employment
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20202$3,263,553$1,631,776
202110$583,912$10,000
202210$827,396$7,250
202312$868,858$10,000
202410$147,000$10,750

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

98% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. 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.

Texas
$5.6M
Georgia
$71K
New York
$12K
Illinois
$7K
District of Columbia
$6K

Down to the city

Houston, TX
$5.6M
Atlanta, GA
$71K
Beaumont, TX
$16K
New York, NY
$12K
Chicago, IL
$7K
Washington, DC
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Greater Houston Community Foundation10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsHouston Endowment Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. 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 Community Health Services Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: Po Box 66308, Houston, TX, 77266.

EIN 76-0009637 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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