Rhode Island · Nonprofit
LUCY'S HEARTH
LUCY'S HEARTH (Rhode Island) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,467,260 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($727,700). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Lucy's Hearth does
Mission
Lucy's Hearth believes that families experiencing homelessness can overcome barriers to self-sufficiency through the combination of holistic programs and services offered in a hopeful, safe and nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lucy's Hearth operates three housing programs and an aftercare program. The on-site facility includes 15 private housing units (13 efficiency units and 2 one-bedroom units) that support both emergency shelter and transitional housing services.emergency shelter program provides emergency shelter for six families, with a maximum length of stay of 90 days.transitional housing program provides temporary housing for seven families, with a maximum length of stay of up to 24 months.permanent supportive housing (psh) program serves up to 16 families experiencing chronic homelessness, in off-site apartments located throughout aquidneck island. There is no time limit on length of stay. Lucy's Hearth currently operates eight psh units and plans to acquire additional apartments throughout the next year as housing becomes available.aftercare program provides voluntary, time-limited housing stabilization services for up to six months for families exiting any Lucy's Hearth housing program after securing permanent housing.major accomplishments:emergency shelter program served 34 families, 47 adults, 55 children, 58 days is the average length of stay, 79% exited to positive housing destinations.…
$1,038,595 spentof which $90,801 as grants$29,124 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,038,595.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $5.2M to $5.7M (+9%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 81% · 2019 78% · 2020 78% · 2021 25% · 2022 25% · 2023 14% · 2024 40% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LUCY'S HEARTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Holland Mcduff Margaret
CEO
Board chair
Farmer Iii Malcolm
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $138k → $414k.
8 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LUCY'S HEARTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LUCY'S HEARTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LUCY'S HEARTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 39% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
68% of LUCY'S HEARTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LUCY'S HEARTH draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
LUCY'S HEARTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LUCY'S HEARTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LUCY'S HEARTH
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Family Service of Rhode Island · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUCY'S HEARTH: 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 LUCY'S HEARTH?
- LUCY'S HEARTH (Rhode Island) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,467,260 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($727,700). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUCY'S HEARTH have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $3,467,260 in grants to LUCY'S HEARTH, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCY'S HEARTH?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $727,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCY'S HEARTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing