How much does Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust give?

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $839,828 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Human Services (25%), Religion (24%).

Who are Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Holy Family Classical Academy Inc ($184k), Chesterton Academy of Wichita Falls ($184k), Christ Academy ($170k).

Does Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation, James N McCoy Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation.

Where is Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust based?

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust is based in TX.

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$840k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$218k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$866kHuman Services$634kReligion$597kHousing & Shelter$105kHealth$86kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$55kYouth Development$33kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k9 grants · $212k
$50k–250k5 grants · $618k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$218,000
CHRIST ACADEMY	$150,000
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF WICHITA FALLS	$95,000
HOLY FAMIILY CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC	$95,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WICHIT	$60,000
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF DECAT	$45,000
KMOC FM	$30,000
TEXOMA MOTHER AND UNBORN BABY CARE	$30,000
WISE CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CEN	$26,828
PHASED IN	$25,000
INHERITANCE ADOPTIONS	$20,000
YMCA OF WICHITA FALLS	$15,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI	$10,000
TRAIL LIFE TX0254	$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITES FORT WORTH NORTHW	$5,000

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 (FY18–25, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 53 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+57%

Still filing today

55%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

HF
HOLY FAMILY CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
2× · 2024–2025 · $184k · revenue +41%
CA
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF WICHITA FALLS
2× · 2024–2025 · $184k · revenue +410% · 25% of their budget
TG
TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH
3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +91%

Funded once

FC
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2024 · $89k
HC
HILLCREST CHILDREN'S HOME AOG
one grant, 2018 · $45k
FB
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ARCHER CITY
one grant, 2024 · $40k

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.

Christianity Today International

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.

Religion

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports

Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion

Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion

Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion

Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal

Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 118 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)

57/61

Grantees still filing

48/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,161,466Education$565,759Human Services$451,307Health$118,115Housing & Shelter$105,000International$56,350Religion$40,400

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.

Wichita Falls Area Community FoundationTX23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Rose & K V Mathew Foundation · J S Bridwell Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Lois Longest Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report 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