Delaware · Private foundation
Lucky Heart Fund
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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Lucky Heart Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 23 | $66k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $54k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $53k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $58k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $41k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $19k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $10k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days End Farm Horse Rescue Inc | $43,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parker Task Force for Human Services | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Earthwatch Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Middleton Place Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Helping Up Mission Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Eunoia Rescue | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Irvine Natural Science Center Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lucky Heart Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation · Advanced Technology International · Kelly Family Foundation · Trident United Way · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lucky Heart Fund
- How much does Lucky Heart Fund give?
- Lucky Heart Fund reported 24 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lucky Heart Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (33%), Health (15%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Lucky Heart Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Days End Farm Horse Rescue Inc ($44k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($11k), Parker Task Force for Human Services ($11k).
- Does Lucky Heart Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lucky Heart Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lucky Heart Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Joanna Foundation, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lucky Heart Fund based?
- Lucky Heart Fund is based in DE.
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