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The Long Road 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.

$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$675kPhilanthropy$220kHousing & Shelter$125kEnvironment$105kArts & Culture$104kCrime & Legal$102kCivil Rights$95kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOSTAN INC$100,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$35,000
M F PLACE INC$25,000
PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT$25,000
RAZOM INC$25,000
COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION$25,000
KIND INC$25,000
MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK INC$25,000
KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH INC: $15k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH INC: $15k → 12%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $6k → 9%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH INC: $9k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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 9% of The Long Road Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Long Road Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
-23%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • TI
    TOSTAN INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +4%
  • MF
    M F PLACE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +78%
  • MW
    MUSIC WILL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $104k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RUCKUS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -95%
  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue -23%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
3
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
4
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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7
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
8
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

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12
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Philanthropy Network; the most unlike its peers is Lava Mae. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOSTAN INC: $600,000 · InternationalTOSTAN INCRAZOM INC: $75,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCTOSTAN INC: $200,000 · OtherTOSTAN INCMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $95,000 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKKIND INC: $88,500 · OtherKIND INCChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $40,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los AngelesTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $20,000 · Other+5 more: $53,500 · Other+5 moreCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $75,000 · Human ServicesKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $39,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $6,000 · Human ServicesM F PLACE INC: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $105,000 · EnvironmentMUSIC WILL INC: $104,000 · Arts & Culture
International$675,000Other$517,000Community Improvement$125,000Human Services$120,000Housing & Shelter$115,000Environment$105,000Arts & Culture$104,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOSTAN INC: $600,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetM F PLACE INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $104,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $95,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC: $88,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $75,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLava Mae: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Long Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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