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Longshadow Foundation at a glance

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Longshadow Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$29kEducation$29kReligion$4kHealth$3kYouth Development$1kRecreation & Sports$1kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART$3,250
LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE$2,500
AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE$1,500
FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION$1,250
CAMP MANITO-WISH$1,000
CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$1,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV$1,000
LORAS COLLEGE$1,000
AQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC$1,000
DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $3k → 11%AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE: $3k → 9%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $1k → 10%STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 14%SEE LIST: $66k → 11%LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $3k → 9%CAMP MANITO-WISH: $1k → 10%LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $3k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR DBQ PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%LORAS COLLEGE: $1k → 10%CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $1k → 14%DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 11%DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 11%DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 11%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR DBQ PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2k → 11%AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE: $2k → 11%FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE ARBORETUM: $1k → 11%DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 5 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$35k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE
    2× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +103%
  • FF
    Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +8%
  • DM
    DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • JD
    JULIEN DBQ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTI
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TB
    Two by Two Inc.
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • LT
    LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
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
Des Moines Performing Arts

Engage the midwest in meaningful entertainment, education, and cultural activities. provide performing arts experiences that educate, inspire and challenge.

Community Improvement
2
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
3
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
4
The Community Theatre of Cedar Rapids Inc

Theatre cedar rapids strives to captivate and inspire through the theatrical and performing arts. tcr's vision is to be a cultural point of pride, connection, inclusion, and learning, invigorating growth in the community.

Arts & Culture
5
Dakota Wesleyan University

Dakota wesleyan university aspires to be a leading university that educates students to identify and develop their individual talents for successful lives in service to god and the common good.

Education
6
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
7
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
8
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
11
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center

To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

Education
12
Des Moines Symphony Association

The des moines symphony is a not-for-profit, professional orchestra formed in 1937 to enrich, educate, and inspire the community by performing great orchestral music. the symphony association, governed by a volunteer board of trustees and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubuque Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Lookingglass Theatre Company. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $5,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSJULIEN DBQ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTI: $5,000 · OtherJULIEN DBQ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · OtherDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATwo by Two Inc.: $2,800 · OtherTwo by Two Inc.LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 · OtherLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANYCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $2,000 · OtherCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INCAMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE: $1,500 · OtherCRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $1,000 · OtherLORAS COLLEGE: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV: $1,000 · OtherDUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE+1 more: $125 · EducationDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ARTLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE CO…American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Players Theatr…STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COM…FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATIONFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools: $7,442 · PhilanthropyFoundation f…Crescent Community Health Center: $2,000 · HealthAQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$29,000Education$15,125Arts & Culture$14,250Philanthropy$7,442Health$2,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Dubuque Public Schools: $7,442 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Mark Youth Enrichment: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Spahn & Rose Lumber C…James B & Melita a Mc…Heartland Charitable …The Klauer Foundation…Dubuque Racing Associ…Falb Family Charitabl…The Butler Family Fou…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Crescent Electric Cha…Herrig Charitable Fou…
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009 · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation · Herrig Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Longshadow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Longshadow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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