Skip to content
The Long Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Long Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$353k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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 2024.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$303kCrime & Legal$268kHuman Services$135kHealth$120kHousing & Shelter$85kEmployment$70kYouth Development$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $348k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVANCE-AUSTIN$20,000
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR$20,000
AUSTIN SOUNDWAVES$20,000
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION FBO LITERACY FIRST$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY$20,000
PELOTONU$18,000
SAFE ALLIANCE$15,000
E3 ALLIANCE$15,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF AUSTIN$15,000
CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY$15,000
BREAKTHROUGH OF CENTRAL TEXAS$15,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE-TEXAS$15,000
CON MI MADRE$15,000
THE LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$14,660
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF AUSTIN: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER SAN ANTONIO: $20k → 16%TSTC FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $50k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES: $20k → 10%CON MI MADRE: $15k → 10%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES: $15k → 10%CON MI MADRE: $15k → 10%CON MI MADRE: $15k → 10%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES: $15k → 10%CON MI MADRE: $15k → 10%CON MI MADRE: $15k → 10%AVANCE-AUSTIN: $20k → 10%PELOTONU: $18k → 10%PELOTONU: $18k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%PELOTONU: $18k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%PELOTONU: $17k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH AUSTIN: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH AUSTIN: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $15k → 10%AVANCE-AUSTIN: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH AUSTIN: $15k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH AUSTIN: $15k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $15k → 10%PELOTONU: $15k → 10%PELOTONU: $15k → 10%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $15k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Long Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 91%.

The Long Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 27 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$2.3M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
-72%

Still filing today

70%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HA
    HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $155k · revenue +143%
  • AC
    AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $138k · revenue +39%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • THE TSTC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -72%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
2
Texas Assoc for College Admission Counseling Inc

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…

Education
3
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership

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…

Education
4
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
5
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
6
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
7
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
8
Aspiring Texas Latinos Achieving Success Together

La tiendita is a resource and empowerment center whose mission is to provide access to healthy and affordable food options and help latino students and others to graduate, attain secondary education and become leaders in their school and…

Community Improvement
9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
10
Capacity Catalyst

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.

Education
11
Scholarshot

Supports first-generation students in achieving career-ready certificates or degrees to strengthen the texas workforce and improve institutional outcomes.

—
12
Academic Success Program Dallas

The organization's mission is to assist students in or around the dallas, texas area prepare for college by inspiring them to acknowledge that a quality college education is within their grasp, encouraging them to set the highest possible…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Alliance; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $210,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-RIO GRANDE VALLEYAVANCE-AUSTIN: $155,150 · OtherAVANCE-AUSTINAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: $137,500 · OtherAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $119,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTYTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $109,000 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCEUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION FBO UTEACH: $65,000 · OtherCOLLEGE FORWARD: $60,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $53,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM: $50,000 · OtherCOLLEGE POSSIBLE-TEXAS: $45,000 · Other+8 more: $150,660 · Other+8 morePELOTONU INC: $124,100 · EducationPELOTONU INCCon Mi MADRE: $111,000 · EducationCon Mi MADREE3 ALLIANCE: $97,500 · EducationE3 ALLIANCEBREAKTHROUGH: $90,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHTodos Juntos Learning Center: $80,000 · EducationTodos Juntos Learning CenterBookSpring: $55,000 · EducationBookSpringAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $55,000 · EducationAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATIONTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE TSTC FOUNDATIONHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $155,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC …Anthropos Arts: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAnthropos…FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRL EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $80,000 · Crime & LegalCapital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesBetter ATX: $45,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,284,310Education$662,600Arts & Culture$200,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Crime & Legal$80,000Human Services$80,000Community Improvement$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $155,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: $137,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONU INC: $124,100 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $119,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCon Mi MADRE: $111,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $109,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $97,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $90,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTodos Juntos Learning Center: $80,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCapital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBookSpring: $55,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $55,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $53,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnthropos Arts: $45,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetBetter ATX: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 2.6% 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.

  • 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 FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds Todos Juntos Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
  • Who funds Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds BookSpring ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Anthropos Arts ↗
  • Who funds Better ATX ↗
  • Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LIRIOS PEDIATRICS ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…The Webber Family Fou…United Way for Greate…The Applied Materials…Better Business BureauHarry E and Eda L Mon…Sooch FoundationPhilanthropitchShield-Ayres Foundati…Topfer Family Foundat…Michael & Susan Dell …St David's Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX31.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Long Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Long Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Long Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Long Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Long’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home