· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCESSPORT AMERICA | $7,700 |
| GROTON HILL MUSIC | $3,500 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $3,500 |
| PLEDGLING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LOWELL MAKES | $2,000 |
| TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| LOVE 146 | $2,000 |
| FALMOUTH ROAD RACE | $1,725 |
| ABC CHILDREN'S HOMES | $1,250 |
| RADIANT CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| JOY US FOUNDATION | $664 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +55%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +99%- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue ×103
Funded once
- MDMY DMD HERO INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SLST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is My Dmd Hero Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 206 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESOLUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MY DMD HERO INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND SERVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUI NO KE OLA PONO INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL MAKES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Luck Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Lowell Festival Foundation — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Woods Hole Film Festival Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Lowell Makes Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.