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The Longleaf 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 $10k1 grant · $60
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MODERN DAY | $26,411 |
| BROOKFIELD CHURCH | $11,400 |
| PASSION WORKS | $10,000 |
| WOUB PUBLIC MEDIA | $60 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +196% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MDMODERN DAY MISSIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +457%
- RARURAL ACTION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +244%
- ZFZIENZELE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HCHOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $9k
- GCGATEWAY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIRIS GLOBALone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +13%
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.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
One Day's Wages is a movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. One Day's Wages promotes awareness, invites giving, and supports sustainable relief through partnerships, especially with smaller…
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
The organization's mission is to seek to cultivate christ's hope in underdeveloped and impoverished areas of the world through agricultural and personal transformation.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Christian-based aid to orphans
To mobilize and equip christians to become agents of spiritual and socio-economic transformation in africa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens County Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hands of Joy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 46% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds RURAL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ZIENZELE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASSION WORKS ↗
- Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds HOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Partnership ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds Restoration Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds International Friendships Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST OHIO INDEPENDENT NEWS ↗
- Who funds TRACE MEDIA 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: Peoples Bank Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Athens County Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Columbus Foundation · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Longleaf 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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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