· Private foundation
Lucy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SOUTH KENT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARVELWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $3,000 |
| EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD | $3,000 |
| SCRANTON LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| THE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BILLION OYSTER PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $2,000 |
| THRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM | $2,000 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL3× · 2020–2022 · $39k · revenue +94%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +19%
- TCTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GCGRACE CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $5k
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southampton Soccer Club. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MADISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bauer Erwin C Char Tuw · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lucy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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