The Legacy Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912168381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Kenmore, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4254855346
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $394,152
- Expenses
- $313,872
- Assets
- $313,239
- Liabilities
- $22,266
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carrie Abbott (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carrie Abbott (President): $65,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In a culture where everyone wants true love, passionate romance and deeply satisfying relationships, why do so many people seem sincerely baffled as to how to reach these ideals? At The Legacy Institute, we see this as a classic case of the "wrong directions." In some instances, it may just be a case of accidental wrong turns or bad decisions. In many instances, it is more insidious: we know people who are selling the wrong map. The Legacy Institute wants to help get people back on the right road. The road that leads to wholeness and clarity in a culture of sexual brokenness and confusion. The road to sexual integrity.Sexual integrity is expressing the gift of our sexuality throughout our whole lives in agreement with God's intentional design. Living with sexual integrity means making smart decisions about physical sexual relationships. It means choosing to stay whole as a person, or moving toward wholeness if we've been hurt. But sexual integrity involves more than just making good se
What it reported doing in 2025
Specialized Human Services Programs. Engaged in continual development of educational curriculum and other programs for distribution; teaching in seminars to parents, community groups, teens, and students; and train and equip educators using the developed curriculum for enhancing knoweldege and understanding of human services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $271K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.