New York · Nonprofit
LUCAS INSTITUTE INC
LUCAS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $940,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($940,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $940k
- Net assets
- $435k
What Lucas Institute Inc does
Mission
The primary mission of the Lucas Institute Inc is to support art and artists in the hudson valley in upstate ny and beyond through grants and to provide space to develop and exhibit their art and to help create a network of artists to support and collaborate with one another. The lucas institute also provides residencies for artists to develop their art and connect with other artists in the hudson valley. The lucas institute also has an art mentorship program and offers nature experiences for children and adults at lucas house in high falls ny. This also aims at creating more connection and collaboration in the art world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary mission of the Lucas Institute Inc is to support art and artists in the hudson valley in upstate ny and beyond through grants and to provide space to develop and exhibit their art and to help create a network of artists to support and collaborate with one another. The lucas institute also provides residencies for artists to develop their art and connect with other artists in the hudson valley. The lucas institute also has an art mentorship program and offers nature experiences for children and adults at lucas house in high falls ny. This also aims at creating more connection and collaboration in the art world.
$333,842 spentof which $9,245 as grants$1,020,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $333,842.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $138k to $461k (+233%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of LUCAS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LUCAS INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LUCAS INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $940k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LUCAS INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LUCAS INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUCAS INSTITUTE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUCAS INSTITUTE INC?
- LUCAS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $940,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($940,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUCAS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $940,000 in grants to LUCAS INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCAS INSTITUTE INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $940,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCAS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing