· Private foundation
Lucky Number 9 Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BNF SANGAY CHOLING FOUNDATION | $58,194 |
| FAKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BUDDHIST STUDIES INC | $1,000 |
| WEST VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| YOGA GIVES BACK | $1,000 |
| SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THE MENDEZ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRANSPLATATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 75% of grant dollars ($815k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($277k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($277k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE4× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +19%
- YGYoga Gives Back6× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +87%
- YGYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $51k
- CMCOMMUNE MAGAZINE A A ARTone grant, 2018 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $26k
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.
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.
The food bank of contra costa and solano (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975. the food bank was established in order to efficiently gather, warehouse, and distribute food products to contra costa county charities meeting…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles.
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buddhas Light Intl Association ↗
- Who funds Yoga Gives Back ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lucky Number 9 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucky Number 9 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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