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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $656,689 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $699,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,146 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $327k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELL AWARE | $291,900 |
| WORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL | $144,000 |
| WATER WELL TRUST | $82,569 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $50,000 |
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,220 |
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 (FY21–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- WIWORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +272%
- RCRURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2023 · $481k · revenue +58%
- WWWATER WELL TRUST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $279k · revenue +765%
Funded once
- GWGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $163k · revenue +74%
- CCCultivate Charlottesvilleone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +8%
- BOBRING ON THE MUSIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +311%
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.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…
Water for South Sudan delivers direct, transformative and sustainable quality-of-life service to the people of South Sudan by efficiently providing access to clean, safe water and improving hygiene practices in areas of great need.
To provide clean drinking water for individuals and families living in poverty around the world with a primary emphasis in africa.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Run Freely. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 WORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WELL AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER WELL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BRING ON THE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds Goalsetter Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Run Freely ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
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: 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
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 Chris 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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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