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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Animals$102kHealth$48kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$19kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC$10,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$2,500
KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE$2,500
NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP$2,500
SMILE FARMS INC$2,500
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY$2,500
MARYLAND SPCA INC$2,500
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$2,500
OPERATION SMILE INC$2,500
FIDOS FOR FREEDOM INC$2,500
IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC$2,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$2,500
KEEPER OF THE WILD WILDLIFE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY$2,500
LOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 14%BBI HOLDINGS INC: $3k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $2k → 19%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$132k · 16 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
62

Total granted

$132k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • DE
    DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +61%
  • PT
    Parker Task Force for Human Services
    6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +78%
  • HU
    HELPING UP MISSION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • EI
    EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • CA
    CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +26%
  • ER
    EUNOIA RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -81%

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
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
2
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Dorchester Paws

Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals
5
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgans Message Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Youth CampsAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,474

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

88 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. 88 of the 94 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
53/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $43,500 · AnimalsDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INCTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $11,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYEUNOIA RESCUE — $7,000 · AnimalsEUNOIA RESCUETHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $4,250 · AnimalsMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,500 · AnimalsCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $3,500 · Animals+11 more — $21,000 · Animals+11 moreParker Task Force for Human Services — $10,500 · OtherParker Task Force for Human ServicesHELPING UP MISSION INC — $8,000 · OtherHELPING UP MISSION INCALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $7,000 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · OtherEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INCCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $6,500 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCSMILE FARMS INC — $5,000 · Other+35 more — $67,250 · Other+35 moreCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $7,000 · HealthCHARLESTON…LOWCOUNTRY EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY — $4,500 · HealthLOWCOUNTRY…ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthALS THERAP…Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc — $2,500 · HealthMyasthenia…MORGANS MESSAGE INC — $2,500 · HealthMORGANS ME…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIB…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $2,500 · HealthRONALD MCD…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN F…+1 more — $750 · HealthMiddleton Place Foundation — $8,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER RUXTON AREA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSTAMFORD HOUSE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HILDENE INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureProject Liberty Ship Inc — $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNBRIDLED THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF RAMANA'S GARDEN — $5,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $2,500 · Human ServicesBBI HOLDINGS INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National — $2,500 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentFRISKY'S WILDLIFE AND PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc — $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EnvironmentWORLD VISION INC — $2,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,500 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $2,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 · International
Animals$93,750Other$114,250Health$29,250Arts & Culture$21,500Human Services$19,750Environment$19,500International$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $43,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParker Task Force for Human Services — $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEUNOIA RESCUE — $7,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER RUXTON AREA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSMILE FARMS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF RAMANA'S GARDEN — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY — $4,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MARYLAND SPCA INC — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jamie and Paige Malone Foundation — $3,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlink of an Eye - Integrative Center for Trauma Healing Advocacy and Transformat — $3,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECKHART TOLLE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARFORD COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRISKY'S WILDLIFE AND PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBBI HOLDINGS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOR HEALING KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTAMFORD HOUSE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMyasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDOS FOR FREEDOM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMORGANS MESSAGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY MARINE MAMMAL NETWORK — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationBaltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …The Mark Elliott Motl…Kuznik Charitable Fou…George R & Janet E De…Advanced Technology I…Kelly Family Foundati…Trident United WayDominion Energy Chari…France-Merrick Founda…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC32× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Heart Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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