California · Public charity
Lucky Duck Foundation
The mission of the Lucky Duck Foundation is to prevent and alleviate the suffering of homelessness throughout San Diego County.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $554,610
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Lucky Duck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k 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 | 33 | $3.8M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $2.1M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $2.3M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $2.2M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $2.0M | 80% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $334k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $661k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation | $1,272,596 | 6 | 14% |
| San Diego County Sheriffs | $1,267,852 | 3 | n/a |
| San Diego Rescue Mission Inc | $1,200,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Urban Street Angels Inc | $1,092,679 | 5 | 5% |
| Youth Assistance Coalition Inc | $774,757 | 5 | 54% |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $597,790 | 6 | 3% |
| Sdhc Building Opportunities Inc | $540,500 | 2 | 10% |
| The Salvation Army | $503,331 | 6 | n/a |
| Promises2kids Foundation | $487,061 | 1 | 7% |
| Serving Seniors | $459,384 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 88 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lucky Duck Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · The Parker Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag
How this is measured
About Lucky Duck Foundation
- How much does Lucky Duck Foundation give?
- Lucky Duck Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $3,823,432 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lucky Duck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (33%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Lucky Duck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation ($1.3M), San Diego County Sheriffs ($1.3M), San Diego Rescue Mission Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Lucky Duck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lucky Duck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation, Price Philanthropies Foundation.
- Where is Lucky Duck Foundation based?
- Lucky Duck Foundation is based in CA.
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