Mississippi · Private foundation
Lucas Foundation for Better Living
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $14k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $707
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations Lucas Foundation for Better Living funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 4 | $14k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $36k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $30k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $33k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $21k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $36k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Food Network Inc | $86,400 | 8 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank of Central Alabama | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Grace House Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Birmingham Ministries | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Exceptional Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lucas Foundation for Better Living supplied at peak.
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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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Ergon Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Faulkner Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Lucas Foundation for Better Living with peer funders
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About Lucas Foundation for Better Living
- How much does Lucas Foundation for Better Living give?
- Lucas Foundation for Better Living reported 4 grants totaling $14,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lucas Foundation for Better Living fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (45%), International (8%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are Lucas Foundation for Better Living's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mississippi Food Network Inc ($86k), United States Fund for Unicef ($13k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($11k).
- Does Lucas Foundation for Better Living fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lucas Foundation for Better Living 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 Lucas Foundation for Better Living?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Navigate Affordable Housing Partners Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Lucas Foundation for Better Living based?
- Lucas Foundation for Better Living is based in MS.
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