How much does The Longleaf Foundation give?

The Longleaf Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $143,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Longleaf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Youth Development (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are The Longleaf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Souper Bowl of Caring Inc ($144k), Dreams of Wilmington Inc ($67k), Elon University ($63k).

Does The Longleaf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Longleaf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Longleaf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North, The Landfall Foundation Inc, The Rudisill Family Foundation.

Where is The Longleaf Foundation based?

The Longleaf Foundation is based in NC.

The Longleaf Foundation

The Longleaf Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Longleaf 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.

$144k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$144k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$798kYouth Development$145kArts & Culture$114kEducation$108kEnvironment$49kFood & Nutrition$30kHealth$12kAnimals$11kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$143,800

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING	$143,800

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$327k · 22 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$327k

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+24%

Still filing today

55%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

DO
DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +72%
Elon University
2× · 2017–2020 · $63k · revenue +43%
GS
Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc
3× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +87%

Funded once

TH
The Hill School of Wilmington Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +186%
JG
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
TC
THE CROSSNORE SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Cape Fear Academy

To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC

Education

CleanAIRE Nc

To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.

Environment

Big BrothersBig Sisters of Wnc Inc

Match mentoring volunteers with children in need to build and foster relationships.

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Wilmington School of the Arts

Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…

Education

Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals

NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation

The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.

Philanthropy

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmin

The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.

Arts & Culture

Wilmington Education Organization

Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.

Education

Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp

To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

17/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$797,690Food & Nutrition$143,800Arts & Culture$101,000Education$97,000Other$104,100Environment$39,500Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

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.

The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown NorthNC17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Landfall Foundation Inc · The Rudisill Family Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Directed Balloun Family Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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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