New York · Private foundation
The Lucky One Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $665k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Lucky One Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $620k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $490k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $435k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $355k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $350k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $345k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | $230,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Music Academy of the West | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Puppies Behind Bars Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Creative Visions Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Perlman Music Program Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Limitless Horizons Ixil Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 3% |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry Inc | $67,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Gwendolyn Strong Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Bellosguardo Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($585k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lucky One Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Little One Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The B & B Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Lucky One Foundation
- How much does The Lucky One Foundation give?
- The Lucky One Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $665,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Lucky One Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (20%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Lucky One Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ganna Walska Lotusland ($230k), Music Academy of the West ($160k), Puppies Behind Bars Inc ($135k).
- Does The Lucky One Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lucky One Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lucky One Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Little One Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is The Lucky One Foundation based?
- The Lucky One Foundation is based in NY.
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