· Private foundation
Billy and Rebecca Long Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEADOWBROOK CHURCH | $28,500 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BALLET MISSISSIPPI | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA | $1,000 |
| OVERBY CENTER FOR SOUTHERN JOURNALISM & POLITICS | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI | $500 |
| DEMENT CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +44%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +57%
- SCSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC3× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- MSMISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -47%
- FFFREEZE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- 2C2ND CHANCE MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Medaille university concentrates on excellence in teaching, with an emphasis on personal attention to its diverse student body. its curriculum provides a solid liberal arts and sciences foundation with early access to career-oriented…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dement Cemetery Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds DEMENT CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Promise686 Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Century Club Charities Inc · Pinebelt Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Billy and Rebecca Long Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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