Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$2,663,742

Total expenses

$1,845,093

Contributions and grants received

$2,628,327

Grants paid

$73,729

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$35,384

Other revenue

$31

Total assets, end of year

$2,335,309

Total liabilities, end of year

$84,208

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,251,101

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,580,703

Management and general expenses

$88,990

Fundraising expenses

$175,400

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,580,703

Program services were 85.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• LEGADO: NAMULI IS LEGADO'S FLAGSHIP PROGRAM WORKING WITH THE LOMWE COMMUNITIES ENCIRCLING MOUNT NAMULI, MOZAMBIQUE, A KEY BIODIVERSITY AREA. NAMULI IS WHERE, IN 2014, WE BEGAN WITH A HARD-EARNED $11,000 AND A PASSIONATE INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, BIOLOGISTS AND MORE. SINCE THEN OUR LEGADO:NAMULI TEAM HAS WORKED WITH EIGHT COMMUNITIES AND 24,000 PEOPLE ON THE MOUNTAIN TO REALIZE THE LEGACIES THEY HAVE DEFINED. OUR WORK WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF THE REGION AND PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS HELPED CREATE OUR PHILOSOPHY OF LEGACY AND BELIEF THAT WHEN PEOPLE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS OF THEIR CHOOSING, THEY CREATE SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES CALLED THRIVING FUTURES.

  Expenses $540,179

• LEGADO: NKISHON SUPAT E NGILAI, WHICH TRANSLATES FROM SAMBURU TO "NGILAI'S THRIVING FUTURE," IS A PROJECT CREATED IN COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE NGILAI COMMUNITY, LEGADO, THE NGILAI WILDLIFE COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY AND NORTHERN RANGELANDS TRUST. THE CONSERVANCY IS HOME TO MORE THAN 11,000 PRIMARILY SAMBURU PEOPLE AND CONTAINS THE CORE OF THE MATHEWS RANGEA SPIRITUAL HOME OF THE SAMBURU, A KEY SOURCE OF WATER FOR THE SURROUNDING VALLEYS AND THE CORE GRAZING AREA THAT SUPPORTS THE LIVELIHOODS OF ITS STEWARDS.

  Expenses $412,000

• FUTUROS VIVOS:MEGANTONI-MACHIGUENGA IS A COLLABORATION TO CO-CREATE THRIVING FUTURES WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES STEWARDING PERU'S MEGANTONI NATIONAL SANCTUARY AND MACHIGUENGA COMMUNAL RESERVE. THE PROGRAM IS A MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP TO SUPPORT THE CO-CREATION OF THRIVING FUTURES WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE ASHNINKAS, MATSIGENKAS, YINE YAMI, QUECHUA, AND KAKINTE, AS WELL AS SURROUNDING LOCAL COMMUNITIES KEY STEWARDS OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST CRITICAL REGIONS FOR BIOCULTURAL CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY.

  Expenses $423,965 · Grants $73,729

• IN 2024, LEGADO BEGAN A PARTNERSHIP TO INTEGRATE OUR THRIVING FUTURES METHODOLOGY INTO PLANET INDONESIA'S WORK SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE INDONESIAN PROVINCE OF WEST KALIMANTAN, LOCATED ON THE ISLAND OF BORNEO. LEGADO'S PARTNERSHIP WITH PLANET INDONESIA STARTS BY WORKING WITH INDIGENOUS DAYAK COMMUNITIES IN MELAWI DISTRICT, NESTED IN THE TWO MILLION-HECTARE ARABELLA SCHWANNER LANDSCAPE, HOME TO BORNEO'S LARGEST REMAINING ORANGUTAN POPULATION. PLANET INDONESIA AND LEGADO WILL WORK TOGETHER ALONGSIDE FOUR VILLAGES IN MELAWI TO SECURE LAND RIGHTS, REDUCE POVERTY, AND LEAD ACROSS THEIR HOLISTIC PRIORITIES TOWARDS THRIVING FUTURES. OUR PARTNERSHIP BUILDS ON PLANET INDONESIA'S DEEP EXPERIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY-LED GOVERNANCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. WORKING TOGETHER, WE WILL CREATE AN UPDATED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PLANNING TOOL THAT EMBEDS 360 COMMUNITY-LED CHANGE INTO PLANET INDONESIA'S CORE MODEL APPROACH. THE TOOL WILL BE USED TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARTICULATE THEIR LEGACIES AND THE PRIORITIES THEY WANT TO PURSUE FOR THEIR OWN THRIVING FUTURES. THE RESULTING LEGACY PLANS WILL BECOME THE BACKBONE FOR SUPPORTING LOCAL GOVERNANCE, GRANT PROPOSALS, AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT SUPPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES TO TAKE ACTIONS THAT BENEFIT BOTH THEMSELVES AND THEIR LANDSCAPES.

  Expenses $195,162

• IN 2024, LEGADO LAUNCHED A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PANGOLIN PROJECT TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS STEWARDSHIP OF THE LARGER NYEKWERI ECOSYSTEM IN NAROK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KENYA. LEGADO SUPPORTED THE PANGOLIN PROJECT TO USE THRIVING FUTURES MODEL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAASAI LANDOWNERS.

  Expenses $7,813

• FULL SPECTRUM IS A COALITION THAT WE SUPPORTED TO LAUNCH. THE FULL SPECTRUM COALITION (FSC) BRINGS TOGETHER LEADING ORGANIZATIONS WITH PROVEN COMMUNITY-LED APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING COMMUNITY WELLBEING. CURRENT MEMBERS OF THIS EMERGENT COALITION INCLUDE ONE VILLAGE PARTNERS, LEGADO, TOSTAN, PASTORAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL, HEALTH IN HARMONY AND PLANET INDONESIA. EACH OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS HAS, IN TURN, A RANGE OF LOCAL PLACES AND COMMUNITIES IT ENGAGES WITH IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: IN AFRICA: KENYA, TANZANIA, MOZAMBIQUE, SENEGAL, THE GAMBIA, GUINEA BISSAU, MALI; GUINEA; NIGERIA, SIERRA LEONE, LIBERIA, GHANA, AND MADAGASCAR; IN SOUTH AMERICA: BRAZIL AND PERU; IN ASIA: INDONESIA.

  Expenses $1,584

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

27 July 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202622089349300422

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