Virginia · Private foundation
Luck Companies Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $800k
- Granted FY2020
- 159
- Grants FY2020
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Luck Companies Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Luck Companies Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 79 organizations, $800k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 16
- Total assets, FY2020
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 71% of the organizations Luck Companies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 117 | $800k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $817k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innerwill | $300,250 | 3 | 8% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) | $160,750 | 2 | 0% |
| GoochlandCares | $117,700 | 2 | 3% |
| Boy Scouts of America | $101,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat | $101,000 | 1 | 1% |
| James River Association | $60,148 | 3 | 1% |
| Operation Healing Forces Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| VMI Foundation | $45,739 | 3 | 0% |
| Va Foundation for Independent Colleges | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 156 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Luck Companies Foundation 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 Inc · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The Pauley Family Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
How this is measured
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About Luck Companies Foundation
- How much does Luck Companies Foundation give?
- Luck Companies Foundation reported 159 grants totaling $799,667 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
- What does Luck Companies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Education (12%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Luck Companies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Innerwill ($300k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ($161k), GoochlandCares ($118k).
- Does Luck Companies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Luck Companies Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Luck Companies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Herndon Foundation, Robins Foundation.
- Where is Luck Companies Foundation based?
- Luck Companies Foundation is based in VA.
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