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Howard & Wendy Long Foundation Inc f/k/a Howard W Long Foundation Inc at a glance

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Howard & Wendy Long Foundation Inc f/k/a Howard W Long Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$236k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$77kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$10kHuman Services$9kHealth$6kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$500
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $206k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$376
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Howard Long Wellness Center$206,000
Christ Fellowship Church$10,000
Samaritan's Purse$6,000
Operating Blessing$5,000
Salvation Army$4,000
Catholic Charities West Virginia$2,500
West Liberty University Foundation$2,000
Place of Hope$500
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mercy Chefs: $500 → 20%Catholic Charities West Virginia: $3k → 15%Place of Hope: $500 → 11%Place of Hope: $500 → 11%Place of Hope: $500 → 11%Catholic Charities West Virginia: $500 → 15%The House of the Carpenter: $500 → 15%Catholic Charities West Virginia: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 9 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$69k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2023–2026 · $16k · revenue +34%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC
    3× · 2022–2026 · $4k · revenue +11%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2025–2026 · $750 · revenue ×30

Funded once

  • NC
    Newbridge Church
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
  • TV
    The Vineyard Church
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CF
    CHADWICK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -73%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Church World Service Inc

Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.

International
2
Mission of Mercy
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3
World Help

World help is a 501(c)(3) christian humanitarian organization that exists to serve the physical and spiritual needs of people in impoverished communities around the world. (continued on schedule o)world help has impacted millions of people…

Religion
4
Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana in the Roman Catholic Diocese

The mission of catholic charities of southwest louisiana is to be christ's merciful love to those who suffer.our mission is to be carried out by catholic people and others in fraternal goodwill pooling their resources to reach out and…

Human Services
5
World for Jesus Ministries Inc

It is the purpose of world for jesus ministries, inc., to go to the nations, evangelize the lost, establish churches, raise up anointed ministries and provide specialized training for every possible leader.

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6
My Catholic Doctor Foundation Inc

The mission of mycatholicdoctor foundation (mcdf) is to answer the call of jesus christ in luke 10:9, when he said, "cure the sick who are there, and say to them, 'the kingdom of god has come near to you.'" by answering the call of jesus…

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7
Catholic Charities- Diocese of Tyler

Catholic charities-diocese of tyler is a servant of the body of christ engaged in works of mercy to ease suffering of the poor, the hungry, the naked, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the least amoung us, our brethren in east texas.…

Philanthropy
8
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
9
The Porch Ministries

Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…

Religion
10
Charlies Lunch Ministries

The mission of charlie's lunch is to demonstrate the gospel of jesus christ by loving, feeding, and empowering needy childrenso they can become healthy and devoted followers of christ.

International
11
House of Mercy
Human Services
12
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chadwick Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Howard Long Wellness Center: $206,000 · OtherHoward Long Wellness CenterNewbridge Church: $50,000 · OtherNewbridge ChurchCHRIST FELLOWSHIP CHURCH INC: $22,000 · OtherCHRIST FELLOWSHIP CHURCH INC+8 more: $39,100 · Other+8 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · HealthCHADWICK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $750 · Education
Other$317,100Religion$16,000Human Services$6,000Health$5,500Philanthropy$5,000Education$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHADWICK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Howard & Wendy Long Foundation Inc f/k/a Howard W Long Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Wendy Long Foundation Inc f/k/a Howard W Long Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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 20 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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