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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 FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$99kHealth$95kReligion$63kHuman Services$52kEducation$49kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
15
States reached
$942k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESSPORT AMERICA$7,700
ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$3,500
GROTON HILL MUSIC$3,500
LOWELL MAKES$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,000
PLEDGLING FOUNDATION$2,000
TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$2,000
LOVE 146$2,000
FALMOUTH ROAD RACE$1,725
ABC CHILDREN'S HOMES$1,250
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$1,000
RADIANT CHURCH$1,000
THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL$1,000
JOY US FOUNDATION$664
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $500 → 14%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $400 → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 7%INFANT TODDLER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100 → 8%INFANT TODDLER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100 → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $500 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$495k · 84 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
113

Total granted

$495k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +55%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +99%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue ×103

Funded once

  • MD
    MY DMD HERO INC
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -54%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SL
    ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/126
Grantees still filing
91/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $80,590 · OtherACCESSPORT AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $31,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $15,700 · OtherANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $15,430 · OtherINDIAN HILL ARTS: $15,000 · OtherARKANSAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherJOY US FOUNDATION INC: $12,964 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD: $14,470 · Other+127 more: $165,865 · Other+127 moreARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $29,173 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDR…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,300 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $14,022 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD…NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $2,812 · Health+16 more: $7,045 · Health+16 moreBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $9,976 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,090 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,315 · EducationTENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,728 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 · Education+11 more: $4,925 · EducationGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6,685 · Arts & CultureLOWELL MAKES INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $2,050 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $1,595 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $1,739 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $2,600 · PhilanthropyDOLI ATAMIAN CAMPERSHIP PROGRAM INC: $1,200 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,600 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $900 · Human Services+3 more: $650 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESOLUTE INC: $15,300 · ReligionSECOND SERVING FOUNDATION: $3,450 · ReligionDELTA STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $750 · Religion
Other$380,719Health$80,352Education$40,834Arts & Culture$28,069Philanthropy$20,900Human Services$20,150Religion$19,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $29,173 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RESOLUTE INC: $15,300 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $14,470 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $14,022 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $9,976 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMY DMD HERO INC: $8,650 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $8,379 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6,685 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,090 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $4,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,315 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,728 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND SERVING FOUNDATION: $3,450 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHUI NO KE OLA PONO INC: $3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL MAKES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $2,812 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,455 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $2,118 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY: $1,595 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIFF: $1,553 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOLI ATAMIAN CAMPERSHIP PROGRAM INC: $1,200 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $891 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncFidelity FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…Cummings Foundation G…Arkansas Community Fo…Combined Jewish Phila…Cambridge Savings Cha…Theodore Edson Parker…Riggs Benevolent FundGreater Lowell Commun…Arvest Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA20.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Luck Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luck Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 206 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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