The Lucky Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873473448
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2023, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$490
Expenses
$2,266
Assets
$3,740

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristina Manuel (Founder - Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Kristina Manuel (Founder - Chief Executive Officer)
  • Sharada Iyer (Board Chairperson)
  • Erica VIsokey (Chief Administrative Officer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -362.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -170.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -38.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.