Massachusetts · Private foundation
Luck Charitable Trust
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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $942k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Luck Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $36k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $62k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $83k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $65k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $91k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $49k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $55k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $75k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | $29,173 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $27,300 | 6 | 0% |
| National Christian Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $15,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church | $15,430 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Resolute Inc | $15,300 | 3 | 3% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc | $14,022 | 7 | 0% |
| Joy US Foundation Inc | $12,964 | 6 | n/a |
| Falmouth Road Race Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Groton Hill Music Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 136 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Luck Charitable Trust 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation
How this is measured
About Luck Charitable Trust
- How much does Luck Charitable Trust give?
- Luck Charitable Trust reported 42 grants totaling $39,097 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Luck Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (17%), Health (16%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Luck Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arkansas Children's Hospital ($29k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($27k), National Christian Foundation Inc ($17k).
- Does Luck Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Luck Charitable Trust 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 Luck Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Luck Charitable Trust based?
- Luck Charitable Trust is based in MA.
Play a game based on Luck’s filings →