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The Longbrake Family 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
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $866k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW SECTOR ALLIANCE | $865,784 |
| BRANFORD FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE GIVING SQUARE | $3,500 |
| GERMANTOWN GLOBAL CONNECTIONS | $2,500 |
| SDC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FARMSHARE | $1,500 |
| INDEPENDENT SECTOR | $1,000 |
| TISBEST PHILANTROPHY | $900 |
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 (FY19–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TGTHE GIVING SQUARE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +55%
- SGSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES2× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +32%
- APAlbany Park Theater Project2× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TBThe Big Tableone grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue -20%
- HIHAND IN HANDone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -105%
- HHOMESIGHTone grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue -35%
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Neighborhood farmers market alliance's mission is to strengthen and support washington's small farms and farming families by providing effective direct sales sites and broadening access to seattle shoppers.
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.
Mcfc builds an equitable, resilient and sustainable local food system through collaboration, transformation, and cultivation.mcfc envisions a vibrant and equitable food system that is healthy for our community, economy, and environment.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Sector and the most unlike its peers is Galesburg Museums Inc Dba Discovery Depot. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 56 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 NEW SECTOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Big Table ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds HOMESIGHT ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GALESBURG MUSEUMS INC DBA DISCOVERY DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SIFF ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FRUIT ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARMSHARE ↗
- Who funds WUMCO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds 501 Commons ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BLESSINGS CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington
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 Longbrake Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Financial Beginnings — 1% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 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.
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