· Private foundation
The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k77 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MULTIPLIER | $800,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $800,000 |
| CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| RIVER PARTNERS | $200,000 |
| MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER | $150,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH | $150,000 |
| ASHBY VILLAGE | $150,000 |
| SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $120,000 |
| THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $100,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MOTHERS' MILK BANK CALIFORNIA | $92,244 |
| ASHBY VILLAGE | $75,000 |
| INSTITUTE ON AGING | $60,000 |
| ON THE MOVE | $60,000 |
| THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CFCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +96%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +105%
- UOUniversity of the Pacific4× · 2017–2020 · $2.0M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LTLas Trampas School Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +28%
- DCDIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CAREgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +58%
- RCREDFORD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +124%
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
Canopy collaborates with communities to grow and sustain equitable urban forests for all
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is Acton Digital 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
281 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. 281 of the 324 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Ashby Village Inc ↗
- Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Las Trampas School Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Luna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity ↗
- Who funds South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' MILK BANK CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Junior Center of Art and Science ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds Postpartum Support Center ↗
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: McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard 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 The Joseph and Vera 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.
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% 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.