Texas · Nonprofit
The Lucky Foundation
The Lucky Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being THE HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $490
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $700
- Net assets
- $4k
What The Lucky Foundation does
Mission
The Lucky Foundation was founded to aide the families of military and first responders build strong municipal alliances with an emphasis on sourcing scholarships to empower the youth of fallen United States Military and First Responders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Lucky Foundation Internship Program works at the college level to prepare talented diverse students across the country for corporate readiness with business soft skills real world leadership development activities academic and career support and an opportunity to take a stand with ingenuity compassion resilience fortitude and integrity in order to pay respects for those that fight for our rights and our freedom help protect our families from harm and gave the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
$0 spentThe Lucky Foundation Scholarship Award programs officially launched the following offerings for students: The Valor Scholar Award The Star of Service: Performing Arts and Athletics Scholarship Empowered Womens Leadership Scholarship Bridge to Success: Needs-Based Scholarship and Bright Futures Scholarship for Students with Learning Disabilities.
$0 spentThe Lucky Foundation expanded outreach programs beyond Texas and Florida into Delaware Idaho Indiana Iowa Montana Nebraska South Dakota Vermont and Wyoming to aide the families of fallen United States Military and First Responders.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2k to $6k (+182%).
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 The Lucky Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kristina Manuel
Founder - Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Sharada Iyer
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 The Lucky Foundation’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
The Lucky Foundation 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
The Lucky Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
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
The Lucky Foundation has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Lucky Foundation
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Lucky Foundation: 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 The Lucky Foundation?
- The Lucky Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being THE HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Lucky Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $700 in grants to The Lucky Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The Lucky Foundation?
- THE HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Lucky Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), 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