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The Long Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN SOUNDWAVES | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION FBO LITERACY FIRST | $20,000 |
| AVANCE-AUSTIN | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $20,000 |
| PELOTONU | $18,000 |
| CON MI MADRE | $15,000 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY | $15,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE-TEXAS | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH AUSTIN | $15,000 |
| E3 ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CAPITAL IDEA | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION FBO UTEACH | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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 10% of The 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, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 91% — 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 +66% since the first grant, against -68% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HAHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +143%
- ACAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · $118k · revenue +39%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMone grant, 2018 · $50k
THE TSTC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -68%- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Texas association for college admission counseling, inc.(tacac) provides support to those who are involved helping students through the postsecondary education planning process (continued on page 26).the organization also provides a…
The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
We're on a mission to improve data use in the social sector by connecting capacity with need for a thriving equitable social data ecosystem.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Girl Empowerment Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Con Mi MADRE ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BookSpring ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Anthropos Arts ↗
- Who funds Better ATX ↗
- Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Webber Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Applied Materials Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Sooch Foundation · Philanthropitch · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · St David's 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 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.
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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