Friends of San Lucas

Analysis

Friends of San Lucas is a registered charity in United States, based in Eagan, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2026. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of San Lucas reported income of $4.5m and spending of $4.0m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.4m to $4.5m (+32%), an average of +5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 165%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Friends of San Lucas sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation ($4.5m), Vital Services Inc ($4.5m) and The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia ($4.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $494k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 8 employees.