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Chris Long Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to mobilize champions, service providers, and experts to help communities access clean water, address basic needs for youth and families, and inspire others to make an impact at home and abroad. The foundation's vision is access and opportunity everywhere.

$700k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$657k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$291,900
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$725k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Chris Long Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$657k57%
FY20239$821k11%
FY20228$1.1M25%
FY202111$953k45%
FY202013$1.2M92%
FY20173$651kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$3.6MHuman Services$731kEnvironment$493kEducation$361kYouth Development$68kFood & Nutrition$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
IA
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Worldserve International$3,171,790623%
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated$480,58441%
Well Aware Inc$471,900226%
Water Well Trust Inc$279,116510%
Dig Deep$195,0004n/a
Charlottesville City Schools$165,3594n/a
Global Water Challenge$163,39712%
First Book$97,43520%
St Anne's-Belfield Inc$92,66020%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$50,00010%
Show all 23 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Chris Long Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorldserve International: $3,171,790 over 6y, 23% of budgetRural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated: $480,584 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWell Aware Inc: $471,900 over 2y, 26% of budgetWater Well Trust Inc: $279,116 over 5y, 10% of budgetGlobal Water Challenge: $163,397 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFirst Book: $97,435 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's-Belfield Inc: $92,660 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Digdeep Right to Water Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBring on the Music Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEmergency Food Network: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRichmond Fisher House Foundation: $5,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Little Bit Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerging Vets and Players: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Franklin Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoalsetter Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRun Freely: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Chris Long Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chris Long Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Chris Long Foundation

How much does Chris Long Foundation give?
Chris Long Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $656,689, out of $699,835 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chris Long Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (68%), Human Services (14%), Environment (9%).
Who are Chris Long Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Worldserve International ($3.2M), Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated ($481k), Well Aware Inc ($472k).
Does Chris Long Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chris Long Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Genan Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Chris Long Foundation based?
Chris Long Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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