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Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 32
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$106k16%
FY202432$78k47%
FY202317$33k24%
FY202220$42k35%
FY202120$31k45%
FY202014$36k43%
FY201926$72kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$62kHousing & Shelter$45kYouth Development$39kHealth$39kHuman Services$34kFood & Nutrition$15kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Lung Association: $26,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLowcountry Food Bank Inc: $23,031 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $21,625 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc: $21,393 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $19,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPalmetto Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEast Cooper Habitat for Humanity Inc: $8,530 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $8,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $4,546 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Abortion Fund: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalmetto State Abortion Fund: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance for Full Acceptance: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeeting Street Schools: $1,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMt Pleasant Academy PTA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOceanside Collegiate Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPattison's Academy: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $654 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarkness to Light Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $274 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Care Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · The Joanna Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $106,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Lung Association ($26k), Lowcountry Food Bank Inc ($23k), Landmarks for Families Inc ($22k).
Does Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Daniel Island Community Fund Inc.
Where is Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Lucey Charitable Foundation Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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