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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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$555k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$4.2MFood & Nutrition$2.3MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.0MEmployment$734kReligion$643kAnimals$590kCommunity Improvement$457kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $409k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN STREET ANGELS$554,610
PROMISES2KIDS$487,061
EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL CTR$336,349
CONVICTED4CHRIST$301,000
SERVING SENIORS$273,334
WE SEE YOU INC$250,000
YOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION$221,034
SAN DIEGO CONTINUING ED$172,250
CENTER FOR POSITIVE CHANGES$162,388
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$139,425
SALVATION ARMY$121,080
DOORS OF CHANGE$92,881
TOWNSPEOPLE$75,000
RISE UP INDUSTRIES$61,667
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER$50,000
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, $2.2M) 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. Its 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%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%CENTER FOR POSITIVE CHANGES: $162k → 11%SD YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $62k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $38k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $35k → 11%LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $120k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $273k → 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
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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 49 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
30

Total granted

$14M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    The San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +186%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
  • US
    URBAN STREET ANGELS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +54%

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%
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
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
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
5
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
6
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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7
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
8
Community Health Improvement Partners

The mission of community health improvement partners is to advance sustainable solutions to priority health needs through collaboration and community engagement.

Health
9
Rebuilding Together - San Diego

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

Housing & Shelter
10
The Stepping Stone of San Diego

The stepping stone of san diego provides alcohol and drug rehabilitation services with special emphasis on serving the needs of the lgbt community.

—
11
Interfaith Housing Assistance Corp

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

—
12
Housing Help of San Diego

The specific purpose of Housing Help of San Diego (HHOSD) is to provide supportive services and tailored solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; 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.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 90 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFFS: $1,267,852 · OtherSAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFFSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $503,331 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $487,061 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONCOUNTY 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: $225,000 · OtherHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $597,790 · OtherHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTERHOME START INC: $401,110 · OtherHOME START INC+35 more: $1,848,741 · Other+35 moreSERVING SENIORS: $459,384 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORSREGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS: $452,728 · Human ServicesREGIONAL TASK FO…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLE…DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $221,743 · Human ServicesDREAMS FOR CHANG…YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $175,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEG…CENTER FOR POSITIVE CHANGES: $162,388 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR POSIT…SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150,000 · Human ServicesSHORELINE COMMUN…Rise Up Industries: $135,000 · Human ServicesRise Up Industri…+11 more: $294,869 · Human Services+11 moreSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,200,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESCU…EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $436,349 · Housing & ShelterEAST COUNTY TRA…Doors of Change: $214,881 · Housing & ShelterDoors of ChangeHousing 4 the Homeless: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterHousing 4 the H…Humble Design Inc: $101,153 · Housing & ShelterTOWNSPEOPLE: $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $26,450 · Housing & ShelterURBAN STREET ANGELS INC: $1,092,679 · ReligionURBAN STREET…ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $400,000 · ReligionST VINCENT D…Convicted 4 Christ Ministries: $331,000 · ReligionConvicted 4 …+1 more: $30,000 · ReligionThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation: $1,272,596 · EducationThe San Die…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $102,355 · EducationUC SAN DIEG…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $100,000 · EducationMONARCH SCH…COMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $72,750 · Education+3 more: $131,894 · Education+3 moreYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC: $774,757 · Food & NutritionYOUTH ASS…WE SEE YOU INC: $350,000 · Food & NutritionWE SEE YO…FEEDING SAN DIEGO: $200,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING S…Third Avenue Charitable Organization: $70,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $24,503 · Food & NutritionSDHC BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $540,500 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $52,995 · Community Improvement+1 more: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,197,930Human Services$2,421,112Housing & Shelter$2,178,833Religion$1,853,679Education$1,679,595Food & Nutrition$1,419,260Community Improvement$613,495

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation: $1,272,596 over 6y, 14% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetURBAN STREET ANGELS INC: $1,092,679 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC: $774,757 over 5y, 54% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $597,790 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSDHC BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $540,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $487,061 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $459,384 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetREGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS: $452,728 over 4y, 11% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $436,349 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHOME START INC: $401,110 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $370,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetWE SEE YOU INC: $350,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetConvicted 4 Christ Ministries: $331,000 over 2y, 46% 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 budgetDoors of Change: $214,881 over 4y, 14% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $139,425 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRise Up Industries: $135,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOHEN VETERANS NETWORK INC: $125,985 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHousing 4 the Homeless: $125,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $102,355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $101,153 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSan Diego Taxpayers Educational Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC: $91,223 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCURA SMILES INC: $85,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNAMI SAN DIEGO: $82,342 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $72,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHELTER CARE PROVIDERS OF SAN DIEGO INC DBA HOMEAID SAN DIEGO: $71,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetThird Avenue Charitable Organization: $70,000 over 2y, 8.1% 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 budgetTeaching and Learning Collaborative Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $52,995 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $49,894 over 2y, 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.

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.

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

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 Lucky Duck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucky Duck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 90 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 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home