Maryland · Nonprofit
LUCY SCHOOL INC
LUCY SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,200 to it, the largest being CARVER FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $463k
What Lucy School Inc does
Mission
The purpose of lucy school, inc. Is to operate and promote the ideals of an independent, non-sectarian educational institution that provides a challenging and unique arts-based education across all learning disciplines that honors individuals while stimulating and nurturing creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, confidence, empathy, and love of learning, all within joyful school culture that advances cares and respect for self, community, family, and the natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
School: education of children pre-kindergarten (age 3) to 8th grade and professional development of teachers.
$2,033,673 spentof which $1,000 as grants$2,272,314 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,033,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $482k to $688k (+43%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of LUCY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Teresa Cochran
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LUCY SCHOOL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LUCY SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of LUCY SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 SCHOOL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LUCY SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.
- Grant$97k
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 SCHOOL 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUCY SCHOOL 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 LUCY SCHOOL INC?
- LUCY SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,200 to it, the largest being CARVER FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUCY SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,200 in grants to LUCY SCHOOL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCY SCHOOL INC?
- CARVER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCY SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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