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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 it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF GIBSON C: $2k → 12%EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%ALLERTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 17%AMERICAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURC: $2k → 12%EDGAR COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%CU CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 17%OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 12%ST MARYS CHURCH: $2k → 14%BOURBON BAPTIST CHURCH: $51k → 9%GIBSON CITY BIBLE CHURCH: $2k → 12%GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%JUDSON CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 19%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH TUSCOLA: $2k → 9%LAKE RIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST: $2k → 19%FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES: $2k → 14%MT PULASKI TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOC: $5k → 14%ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH MT PULASKI: $2k → 14%ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 17%EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHRISTIAN SCH: $10k → 9%MT PULASKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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

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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.

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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,…

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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.

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12
Field Foundation of Illinois
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edgar County 4-H Association; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 188 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 188 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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