The Latino Legacy Foundation was incorporated in the State of California on April 30, 2020, to preserve our history and recognize the contributions and achievements that people of Latino heritage have made and are continuing to make every day to the betterment of humanity.

The LLF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, based in San Diego, California.

The genesis of the LLF dates back to 1994, with the creation of 100 Portraits: Pioneers, Visionaries and Role Models, a community collaborative, travelling photographic exhibit, and soft-cover book (later published in 2001) that highlighted the contributions of San Diego’s Mexican-American community—the first pictorial exhibit and book of its kind at the time. This self-esteem project was in response to anti-immigrant sentiments from California Proposition 187, which perpetuated negative stereo-types of people of Mexican heritage.