· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +196% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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 GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +35%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 HOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- 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 Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds Restoration Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Friendships Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST OHIO INDEPENDENT NEWS ↗
- Who funds TRACE MEDIA INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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