The Work That Matters: A Look At Luck Family Foundation’s 2025 Impact
Some stories do not need stage lighting or loud applause...they happen quietly in the background, but make a hell of an impact. This is one of those stories.
Every year at Potluck, three hundred guests gather at long tables for a meal built around a simple idea. Through food, for food. It is not a slogan, it’s a promise. The money raised at that dinner goes straight back into the hands of the people who grow, harvest, mill, and feed this region in ways that actually keep it standing.
Photography provided by Brooks Burris.
Last year, that support landed with three groups whose work is as steady as Texas bedrock. Boggy Creek Farms, Mercado Sin Nombre, and Farm Share Austin. All three took those funds and put them to work in ways you can see in the soil, the craft, the community, and hopefully eat.
Farm Share Austin used their grant to buy equipment that cut down the brute labor of their mixed vegetable operation and helped restore the ground beneath their boots, organic matter back into the soil, and health back into the land. It’s not glamorous work, but it’s honest work keeps our food systems running.
Boggy Creek Farms, which has been feeding Central Texas since 1890, used their seventy five hundred dollars to expand their tomato house. In addition to growing Texas’ tomatoes, it now doubles as a gathering place, thanks to a new ramp that makes it more accessible for community events. With one hundred thirty five years under their belt and counting, it’s hard not to root for that kind of legacy.
Mercado Sin Nombre put their grant toward a new molino for processing imported corn from Mexico into more traditional, more consistent, and as Austin locals demand, more authentic tortillas. Those tortillas carry generations. Supporting a molino is supporting the farmers behind it, the stories inside it, and the traditions that do not break if you tend to them.
These are not small wins. These are the kind that stack.
This year brought a different kind of need. When flooding tore through the Hill Country, the community arrived fast. Sometimes faster than we could organize. So Luck stepped in where we were needed, bringing order to the chaos and putting volunteers exactly where they could make a real difference. Texans show up. We just helped point the traffic.
After the initial demand for boots on the ground relief receded, we turned our sights to rebuilding. Our popular spring series Luck on the Lawn returned to Hotel Magdalena’s Bobbie Nelson lawn for a night of music and community.
A benefit built with Arlyn Studios, held on August seventeenth, with Lyle Lovett, Los Lonely Boys, and Angel White lending their voices (because who said philanthropy couldn’t be fun?) Texas showed up yet again with every dollar going to Kerr County Relief Fund. Not symbolic. Not theoretical. Just real money for real people rebuilding real lives.
Photography provided by Brooks Burris.
The silent auction added more fuel to the effort. Luxury stays, show tickets, and a few items that would make even a seasoned collector lean in closer. Every cent went to flood recovery.
This was not about fanfare. It was about showing up in a moment that demanded it.
The Luck Family Foundation does not chase the spotlight. We chase the work. We protect the land. We support the hands that feed us. And when our neighbors take a hit, we do not wait to be asked.
To everyone who sat at Potluck, picked up a shovel, placed a bid, or showed up for someone they will never meet, you helped make this year count.
Photography provided by Brooks Burris.
The road ahead always needs tending. Good thing we have a community that knows how to do just that.
We will keep you posted on what comes next. Just not all at once. Some things are better revealed in their own time.
Stay in Luck.
