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Lucy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$167kEnvironment$31kHealth$28kFood & Nutrition$18kScience & Tech$13kRecreation & Sports$12kCommunity Improvement$12kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
SOUTH KENT SCHOOL$10,000
MARVELWOOD SCHOOL$5,000
MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
SCRANTON LIBRARY$3,000
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD$3,000
LAST PRISONER PROJECT$3,000
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL$2,500
THE COUNTRY SCHOOL$2,500
MADISON FOUNDATION$2,000
THE JED FOUNDATION$2,000
THRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM$2,000
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT$2,000
USIC$2,000
FOOD EDUCATION FUND$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Scranton Library: $3k → 13%EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $3k → 10%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%JED Foundation: $4k → 17%Equal Justice Initiative: $3k → 18%MARVELWOOD SCHOOL: $5k → 9%Yale New Haven Hospital: $5k → 12%LAST PRISONER PROJECT: $3k → 12%Pike Place Market Foundation: $3k → 9%St Paul's School: $15k → 7%Maine Island Trail Association: $4k → 7%Edible Schoolyard: $3k → 10%Colgate University: $11k → 11%JEd Foundation: $4k → 17%The Marvelwood School: $5k → 9%Yale New Haven Hospital: $4k → 12%Brown University Sports Foundation: $5k → 14%Last Prisoner Project: $3k → 12%Pike Place Market Foundation: $3k → 9%St Paul's School: $14k → 7%JED Foundation: $3k → 17%The Marvelwood School: $5k → 9%Yale New Haven Hospital: $3k → 12%Pike Place Market Foundation: $3k → 9%St Pauls School: $10k → 7%The Marvelwood School: $3k → 9%EC Scranton Memorial Library: $10k → 12%Seattle Aquarium: $3k → 9%Grace Church School: $5k → 17%The Marvelwood School: $3k → 9%The Country School: $5k → 12%Pike Place Market Foundation: $3k → 9%Food Education Fund: $3k → 17%E C Scranton Memorial Library: $5k → 12%SOUTH KENT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%The Country School: $5k → 12%Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $3k → 17%South Kent School: $7k → 9%E C Scranton Memorial Library: $5k → 12%Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $3k → 17%The Country School: $5k → 12%Billion Oyster Project: $3k → 17%The Madison Foundation: $4k → 12%Billion Oyster Project: $3k → 17%MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 12%The Country School: $3k → 12%SCRANTON LIBRARY: $3k → 12%THE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
AL
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 23 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$285k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+24%

Still filing today

87%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SP
    ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $39k · revenue +94%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +19%
  • TC
    THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -66%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The York School

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…

Education
5
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
6
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Millbrook School

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.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
11
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
12
The Bridge Academy Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $38,882 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOLCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,500 · EducationTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATEDMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,500 · EducationMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INCSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $16,500 · EducationSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATIONBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $9,500 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INCFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $6,500 · EducationTHRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC: $6,000 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationEC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $23,000 · OtherEC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARYBrown University Sports Foundation: $7,000 · OtherBrown University Sports Founda…USIC: $6,000 · OtherUSICEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $5,500 · OtherEDIBLE SCHOOLYARDYALE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $4,000 · OtherScranton Library: $3,000 · OtherLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $7,500 · OtherLAST PRISONER PROJECTNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $6,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPREN…MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,500 · OtherMADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 · Other+9 more: $12,500 · Other+9 moreTHE JED FOUNDATION: $14,500 · HealthTHE JED FOUND…YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $13,500 · HealthYALE NEW HAVE…THE MADISON FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthTHE MADISON F…CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · InternationalPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMaine Island Trail Association: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $9,500 · Animals
Education$150,882Other$88,000Health$39,500International$12,500Community Improvement$12,500Environment$12,000Animals$9,500

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 budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $38,882 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARVELWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MADISON FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON SOCCER CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

Bauer Erwin C Char TuwNational Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Bauer Erwin C Char TuwMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lucy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lucy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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