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Lucys Legacy Foundationinc

To explore, research, develop and support educational endeavors, including, without limitation, to support the students and alumni of wheelock college, primarily through grants and scholarships. Its fy2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$136k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2026
5
Organizations funded FY2025
80%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$83,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 80% of the organizations Lucys Legacy Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving4$136k75%
FY20255$234k80%
FY20241$4k0%
FY20237$130k86%
FY20228$124k88%
FY20211$115k0%
FY20201$128k100%
FY20181$86k0%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$886kReligion$4kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$3kCivil Rights$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston University$812,95370%
Wheelock College$168,00020%
Qt Library Inc$3,50014%
Building Audacity$3,48210%
Willie Ross School for the Deaf Inc$3,03610%
Texas School for the Deaf$2,7001n/a
Mohawk Trail Regional School District$9131n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

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How do I get to Lucys Legacy Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to Lucys Legacy Foundationinc 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.

About Lucys Legacy Foundationinc

How much does Lucys Legacy Foundationinc give?
Lucys Legacy Foundationinc reported 7 grants totaling $136,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Lucys Legacy Foundationinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (98%), Religion (0%), Youth Development (0%).
Who are Lucys Legacy Foundationinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Trustees of Boston University ($813k), Wheelock College ($168k), Qt Library Inc ($4k).
Does Lucys Legacy Foundationinc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lucys Legacy Foundationinc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Lucys Legacy Foundationinc based?
Lucys Legacy Foundationinc is based in MA.

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 22 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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