How much did R A LONG FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of R A LONG FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

charterwyandotte

2021

librarytruman

2022

campboyschurchurban

2023

healthchristian churchleague

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k99 grants · $371k
$10k–50k7 grants · $76k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH$13,750
CORNERSTONES OF CARE$12,500
MCC FOUNDATION$10,000
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$10,000
KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMM COLLEGE FUND$10,000
GRANTVIEW PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM$10,000
LITERACY KANSAS CITY$8,000
CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED$7,500
SHEFFIELD PLACE$7,000
METRO LUTHERN MINISTRY$6,500
COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE$6,000
NEWHOUSE$6,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER KC$6,000
SUNFLOWER HOUSE$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 82% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 125 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

125 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125

Total granted

$2.1M

$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+120%

Still filing today

54%

16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

OP
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
CO
CORNERSTONES OF CARE
4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +23%
LK
LITERACY KANSAS CITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +67%

Funded once

GP
GRANDVIEW PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $10k
KC
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2021 · $10k
ST
STARLIGHT THEATRE
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment

Kansas City Artists Coalition

The kansas city artists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness in kansas city and the surrounding region, and supports the professional growth of artists

Arts & Culture

Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

United way of greater kansas city's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of greater kansas city.

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Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition

Elevate Metro Kc

To build long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education

Kanza Mental Health and Guidance

Kanza mental health is a community based mental health counseling center. our competent and dependable staff are goal-oriented and solution-focused. we provide confidential, affordable treatment that accurately deals with today's issues…

Health

Empower Missouri

To secure basic human needs and equal justice for every person in our state through coalition-building and advocacy.

Human Services

Welcome House Inc

Welcome House is committed to providing a high-quality, moral and open residential program to recovering alcoholics and drug-addicted men facing the difficult transition from treatment, incarceration and homelessness to reintegration back…

Health

Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture

Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…

Education

Kids Win Missouri

Through collaboration and advocacy, Kids Win Missouri develops and advances evidence-based and equity-centered policies and systems changes to support the health, education, safety and development of children and their families.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunflower House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/81

the rest of the field

11%

1,070/9,434

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.

05the grantee network

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/77

Grantees still filing

69/77

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,508,882Human Services$236,000Education$162,000Arts & Culture$154,500Housing & Shelter$106,500Health$78,000Crime & Legal$43,000

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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO103.7× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Care Foundation of Greater Kc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's · The Francis Family Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · Commerce Bancshares 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 organisation R A 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821768554 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on YOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to R a Long Foundation?

Find your warmest path to R a Long Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

R A LONG FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to R a Long Foundation?

More from the funding graph

R A LONG FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to R a Long Foundation?

More from the funding graph