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The Long Lewis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k302 grants · $551k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANGEL TREE | $62,450 |
| FCA | $31,700 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS | $20,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK BAPTIST CHURCH | $17,250 |
| TRINITY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME | $13,560 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SHOALS | $12,500 |
| THE RESCUE ME PROJECT | $12,400 |
| LIFESOURCE | $12,076 |
| TRI-STATE INSPIRATIONAL BROADCASTING | $11,200 |
| REAL LIFE CHURCH | $10,500 |
| RUSSELLVILLE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $10,306 |
| FLORENCE ALLSTARS | $10,000 |
| COMMON GROUND SHOALS | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
293 repeat relationships — 173 still active in FY2024, 120 since wound down; 144 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES6× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +100%
- TRTHE RESCUE ME PROJECT7× · 2018–2024 · $153k · revenue +93% · 82% of their budget
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SHOALS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- GWGRACE WAY BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $71k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTAIN ATHLETESone grant, 2021 · $51k
- FBFood Bank of North Alabama Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +85%
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 christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Social services
Ministry is a cristian church focusing on spreading the word of god, humanitarian help, reaching out to communities in need, provide financial help, build new churches.
Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.
Strengthens families and serve sexual assault victims
Provides foster care for children placed in home by family court lauderdale county
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angels Among Us. 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 20 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
188 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. 188 of the 799 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE ME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SHOALS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND SHOALS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Northwest Alabama ↗
- Who funds ONWARD CAMPUS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW BEGINNING INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MISSIONS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RUSSELLVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE INSPIRATIONAL BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds SHOALS SAV-A-LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BELIEVERS IN CHRIST ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds SHOALS DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRATTVILLE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION HOMES OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joel R Anderson Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Alfa Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Goodwyn Mills & Cawood Charitable Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Joe Lee Griffin 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 Lewis 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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