Legacy Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831093725
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, United States
- Phone
- (833) 476-3778
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,461,570
- Expenses
- $1,651,320
- Assets
- $732,767
- Liabilities
- $139,563
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LARRY FOWLER (FOUNDER): $65,000 total reported compensation
- DANIEL HELLIGE (PresCEODirector): $52,500 total reported compensation
- STEVEN BRADFORD (COOVICE CHAIRSEC): $31,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Legacy Coalition is here to encourage churches to minister to grandparents as they encourage and influence their grandchildren. Our desire is for grandparents to look beyond the pleasures of the retirement culture and invest in the lives of their grandchildren. Grandparents themselves often lack vision, need support and community, or don’t know of tools which can help. A New Course. On-demand small group training to help grandparents understand and embrace the impact of their biblical role. $99 + $12 Workbooks. You Can Help Support This Vision Donate to Legacy Coalition Financial Stewardship. The Mission To be a platform for coalition ministries to engage the Church in the task of envisioning and equipping grandparents to impact future generations who know, love and serve Christ. Our Beliefs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Summit Conference and Seminars: Legacy Coalition (LC) hosted its annual Grandparenting Summit in March 2026 in Frisco, TX. The Summit featured Christian speakers and authors who addressed over 1,200 grandparents on the importance of intentionally passing their faith legacy to the next generation. This years event also included global grandparenting ministry leaders from 14 countries outside the US. Recordings of the speakers will be used for church-hosted events in late 2026 & early 2027. Costs related to these future events were expensed as incurred. Revenues are recognized when performance oblig- ations are completed. At 6/30/26, Deferred Revenue of $136,116 has been reflected as a liability. (See Schedule O for more....)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.