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The Longview 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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$405kSocial Science$125kEducation$117kYouth Development$23kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$10kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLARK COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION$4,300
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$3,000
EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION$2,550
DEWEY COMMUNITY CHURCH$1,000
JUDSON CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
EAST BEND CHURCH$1,000
COMMUNITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,000
ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AMERICAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURC$1,000
FCCLA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
SECOND CHURCH OF GOD$1,000
THE GEORGETOWN BIBLE MISSIONARY CHURCH$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%VICTORY CHURCH: $2k → 9%MARSHALL LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 11%ST ANDREW PARISH: $2k → 12%FIRST UNITED METHODIST: $2k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 14%EDGAR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 16%ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 19%DEWITT COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 11%CLARK COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%DECKER CHAPEL: $2k → 12%EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%LEROY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 11%MARSHALL BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 11%GIBSON CITY BIBLE CHURCH: $2k → 12%EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%ALLERTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 17%OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 12%EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%CU CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 17%AMERICAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURC: $2k → 12%LAKE RIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%BOURBON BAPTIST CHURCH: $51k → 9%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF GIBSON C: $2k → 12%ST MARYS CHURCH: $2k → 14%JUDSON CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 19%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH TUSCOLA: $2k → 9%FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES: $2k → 14%THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST: $2k → 19%GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%MT PULASKI TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOC: $5k → 14%MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%HOLY FAMILY: $2k → 17%EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN SCH: $10k → 9%ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH MT PULASKI: $2k → 14%THE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM: $50k → 19%THE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM: $50k → 19%THE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM: $25k → 19%CHRISMAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $6k → 14%PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%CHAMPAIGN CO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$490k · 80 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
76

Total granted

$490k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+6%

Still filing today

3%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionEducationOther

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

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM
    3× · 2021–2023 · $125k
  • PC
    PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +108%
  • EC
    EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BB
    BOURBON BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • CB
    COMMUNITY BANKERS ASSN OF IL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • ML
    MARSHALL LITTLE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Illinois Turfgrass Endowment Attn Luke Cella
Youth Development
2
Christian County 4-H Foundation

Support 4-H activites within Christian County, Illinois

Youth Development
3
Dekalb County 4-H Foundation Inc

Foundation for local 4-H members

4
Crawford County Farm Bureau

The mission of the Crawford County Farm Bureau is to provide social, educational and promotional activities, programs and services for its membership, that will further the local agricultural industry.

5
Monroe County Extension & 4-H Education Foundation

Provide support to the community youth

Education
6
Edgar County Farm Bureau

The Farm Bureau is organized to promote marketing of agricultural products and to provide educational and social activities for its members in Edgar County, Illinois. The organization is supported primarily through membership dues,…

Philanthropy
7
Clark County Farm Bureau

The farm bureau is organized to promote marketing of agricultural products and to provide educational and social activities for its members in clark county, illinois. the organization if supported primarily through membership dues,…

8
Illinois Association of Future Farmers of America

FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…

Youth Development
9
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
10
Peoria County Farm Bureau Foundation

To improve the economic well-being of agricultural and enrich the quality of farm bamily life.

Education
11
Rock Island Co Extension & 4H Education Foundation

Provides growth and educational opportunities to area youth.

12
Field Foundation of Illinois

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edgar County 4-H Association and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 52 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr11%6%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr12%6%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr28%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr11%5%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr12%5%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr28%60%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
10%
337/3,360

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.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 188 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM — $125,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY ON CAPITALISMBOURBON BAPTIST CHURCH — $50,916 · OtherBOURBON BAPTIST CHURCH+179 more — $435,775 · Other+179 morePARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationPARKLAND COL…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationHILLSDALE CO…EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION — $13,380 · Youth DevelopmentDEWITT CO 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLARK COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION — $4,300 · Youth DevelopmentTHE EDGAR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropySEEK & FIND MINISTRIES — $600 · Religion
Other$611,691Education$80,000Youth Development$22,680Philanthropy$10,000Religion$600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION — $13,380 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY BANKERS ASSN OF IL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDGAR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDEWITT CO 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSEEK & FIND MINISTRIES — $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BANKERS ASSN OF IL INC
  • Who funds THE EDGAR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DEWITT CO 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA1.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Longview 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Longview Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Longview Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 188 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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