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Lucky Duck Foundation

The mission of the Lucky Duck Foundation is to prevent and alleviate the suffering of homelessness throughout San Diego County.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$4.2MFood & Nutrition$2.3MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.0MEmployment$734kReligion$643kAnimals$590kCommunity Improvement$457kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $2,100,427 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,574,607 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $474,180 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $983k
  • $250k+2 grants · $785k
$43,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION$500,000
SAN DIEGO CONTINUING ED$285,173
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES$120,000
SERVING SENIORS$114,550
URBAN STREET ANGELS$110,000
HUMBLE DESIGN INC$101,153
SAN DIEGO HOUSING COMMISSION$100,000
SALVATION ARMY$98,733
YOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION$69,000
CHURCH OF SALVATION$65,000
DOORS OF CHANGE$55,000
HOUSING 4 THE HOMELESS$50,000
VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO$50,000
CURA SMILES$50,000
HOME START INC$43,667
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PATH: $30k → 14%Empowerment Plan: $8k → 21%REGIONAL TASK FORCE ON HOMEL: $323k → 11%REGIONAL TASK FORCE HOMELESS: $110k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $100k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $35k → 11%2-11 SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SD: $10k → 11%REGIONAL TASK FORCE HOMELESS: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $34k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUND: $350k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUND: $20k → 11%SD YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $38k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $120k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $115k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $72k → 11%29 ELEVEN MATERNITY HOME: $40k → 11%29 Eleven Maternity Home: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 42 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
29

Total granted

$11M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
  • TS
    The San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +186%
  • YA
    YOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $554k · revenue +579% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

  • ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +124%
  • CO
    COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2020 · $377k
  • Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -44%

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

04Your field

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.

1
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
2
New Door Opportunities

Feeding the homeless population in san d

Food & Nutrition
3
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
4
Community Housing Works

Community housingworks ("chw or the organization") is a nonprofit california corporation incorporated on june 20, 1988. chw believes that opportunity begins with a stable home. the organization provides and builds life-changing affordable…

Housing & Shelter
5
San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation

San diego interfaith housing foundation's mission is to sponsor and assist in the development of quality low cost, single and multi-family housing for low income and handicapped persons in the greater san diego metropolitan area.

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6
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
7
Rebuilding Together - San Diego

To renovate and preserve affordable homeownership for low income homeowners and revitalize neighborhoods throughout san diego.

Housing & Shelter
8
Interfaith Development Corporation

To assist in the development of affordable housing for low income residents of san diego county.

Housing & Shelter
9
Interfaith Housing Assistance Corp

To assist in the development of affordable housing for low income residents of san diego county.

—
10
Good Samaritans of San Diego Restoration Ranch

The "ranch" is a temporary home to adult men who have a sincere desire to be set free from drugs, alcohol, or addictive behaviors. the ranch uses christian principles, bible studies and practical training to prepare residents to resume a…

Health
11
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
12
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Cohen Veterans Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%8%5–10yr21%35%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%3/79
the rest of the field
14%
2,126/14,682

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFFS — $1,267,852 · OtherSAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFFSTHE SALVATION ARMY — $382,251 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCOUNTY OF SAN DIEGO — $376,533 · OtherCOUNTY OF SAN DIEGOInterfaith Community Services Inc — $265,400 · OtherALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $225,112 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF SALVATION — $190,000 · OtherHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $547,790 · OtherHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTERHOME START INC — $353,700 · OtherHOME START INC+31 more — $1,546,816 · Other+31 moreREGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS — $442,728 · Human ServicesREGIONAL TASK FO…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $370,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLE…DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC — $221,743 · Human ServicesDREAMS FOR CHANG…SERVING SENIORS — $186,050 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORSYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $175,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEG…SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $150,000 · Human ServicesSHORELINE COMMUN…Rise Up Industries — $73,333 · Human Services+10 more — $249,879 · Human Services+10 moreSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,200,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESC…Doors of Change — $122,000 · Housing & ShelterDoors of Chang…Humble Design Inc — $101,153 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design …EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST COUNTY TR…Housing 4 the Homeless — $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $26,450 · Housing & ShelterThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation — $1,100,346 · EducationThe San Dieg…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $102,355 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $100,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHO…SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $49,894 · Education+3 more — $83,050 · Education+3 moreURBAN STREET ANGELS INC — $538,069 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $400,000 · Religion+1 more — $30,000 · ReligionYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC — $553,723 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $200,000 · Food & NutritionWE SEE YOU INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionThird Avenue Charitable Organization — $40,000 · Food & NutritionSDHC BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $540,500 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $52,995 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,155,454Human Services$1,868,733Housing & Shelter$1,624,603Education$1,435,645Religion$968,069Food & Nutrition$893,723Community Improvement$603,495

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation — $1,100,346 over 5y, 14% of budgetYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC — $553,723 over 4y, 54% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $547,790 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSDHC BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $540,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetURBAN STREET ANGELS INC — $538,069 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetREGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS — $442,728 over 3y, 11% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $400,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $370,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHOME START INC — $353,700 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc — $265,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $225,112 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDREAMS FOR CHANGE INC — $221,743 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSERVING SENIORS — $186,050 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC — $125,985 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDoors of Change — $122,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $102,355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc — $101,153 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSan Diego Taxpayers Educational Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetWE SEE YOU INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC — $91,223 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI SAN DIEGO — $82,342 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCURA SMILES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHousing 4 the Homeless — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRise Up Industries — $73,333 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHELTER CARE PROVIDERS OF SAN DIEGO INC DBA HOMEAID SAN DIEGO — $71,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC — $66,391 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGO DEI MINISTRIES — $60,467 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $52,995 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $49,894 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS — $43,550 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThird Avenue Charitable Organization — $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $33,690 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPATH — $30,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConvicted 4 Christ Ministries — $30,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…Sempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Alliance Healthcare F…The Cushman FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Jacobs & Cushman San …The Parker FoundationMufg Union Bank Found…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA66× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lucky Duck Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cohen Veterans Network Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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