Colorado · Private foundation
Love Lucky Dog Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Love Lucky Dog Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community First Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Love Lucky Dog Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $2k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 93% of the organizations Love Lucky Dog Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $2k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2k | 93% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Plata County Humane Society | $3,555 | 4 | 0% |
| Babson College | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Womens Resource Center in Durango | $744 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Colorado Avalanche Information Center | $353 | 3 | 0% |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $236 | 2 | 0% |
| Delta Gamma Foundation | $124 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mono Lake Foundation | $105 | 3 | 0% |
| Pasadena Humane | $105 | 1 | n/a |
| Headstrong Foundation | $104 | 2 | 0% |
| Parker's Animal Rescue | $103 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Plata County Humane Society | $3,555 | 4 | 0% |
| Babson College | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Womens Resource Center in Durango | $744 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Colorado Avalanche Information Center | $353 | 3 | 0% |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $236 | 2 | 0% |
| Delta Gamma Foundation | $124 | 1 | 0% |
| The Mono Lake Foundation | $105 | 3 | 0% |
| Pasadena Humane | $105 | 1 | n/a |
| Headstrong Foundation | $104 | 2 | 0% |
| Parker's Animal Rescue | $103 | 1 | 0% |
| Music in the Mountains Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $52 | 1 | 0% |
| Raising Men Lawn Care Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| The Brendan Looney Foundation Inc | $30 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Love Lucky Dog Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Ballantine Family Fund · The Erteszek Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Baird Foundation Inc · Westmeath Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Love Lucky Dog Foundation
- How much does Love Lucky Dog Foundation give?
- Love Lucky Dog Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,604 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Love Lucky Dog Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (44%), Human Services (13%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Love Lucky Dog Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: La Plata County Humane Society ($4k), Babson College ($800), Womens Resource Center in Durango ($744).
- Does Love Lucky Dog Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Love Lucky Dog Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Love Lucky Dog Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Thoren Family Charitable Trust, Ballantine Family Fund.
- Where is Love Lucky Dog Foundation based?
- Love Lucky Dog Foundation is based in CO.
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