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Virginia M Long Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Virginia M Long Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$141kArts & Culture$31kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$17kEducation$17kEnvironment$13kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST AMBROSE CHURCH & SCHOOL$15,000
MARQUETTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST MARY CHURCH & SCHOOL$10,000
CHURCHILL CENTER SCHOOL$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$5,500
HOPE FOR HEROES$5,000
ST PETER AND PAUL CHURCH$5,000
CRISIS FOOD CENTER$3,000
THE NATURE INSTITUE$2,000
OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$2,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES MOBILE PANTRY$2,000
LEWIS & CLARK COM COLLEGE$2,000
RIVER BEND HEAD START$2,000
CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $3k → 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $3k → 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $3k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $2k → 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $2k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%OASIS WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $2k → 12%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 25 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$303k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+59%

Still filing today

20%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • OW
    OASIS WOMENS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +56%
  • TN
    THE NATURE INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +27%
  • WA
    Wreaths Across America
    3× · 2020–2022 · $300 · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CC
    CSC CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • DA
    DIOCEASE & AN CATH SERV APPEAL
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
The Jackie Lithgow Foundation
Health
2
The Diane Warren Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Susan Morrow Legacy Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Joanna Foundation
—
5
The Joanna Foundation
—
6
Joshua Center

Joshua Center exists to provide unique support for grieving children and families as they find hope and healing.

Religion
7
Louise Allen Foundation
Human Services
8
Joanie C Bernard Foundation
Animals
9
The Diane Stilwell Weinberg Foundation
Human Services
10
The Anne Wojcicki Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Sisters Supporting Sisters Foundation Sisters Foundation De
Youth Development
12
Claire Williams Oneil Foundation Co Michael Flanagan
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis; the most unlike its peers is The Jackie Long Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 48 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST AMBROSE CHURCH & SCHOOL: $81,020 · OtherST AMBROSE CHURCH & SCHOOLMARQUETTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $40,100 · OtherMARQUETTE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLST AMBROSE CAMARAS & OUTREACH: $25,000 · OtherST AMBROSE CAMARAS & OUTREACHCATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME: $12,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $12,000 · OtherTHE NATURE INSTITUTE: $12,000 · OtherLCCC FOUNDATION GWC ENDOWMENT: $11,602 · OtherNEWMAN CATHOLIC CENTER: $11,000 · OtherST MARY CHURCH: $11,000 · Other+31 more: $91,289 · Other+31 moreCRISIS FOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesOASIS WOMENS CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JACKIE LONG FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $5,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHOPE FOR HEROES INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $300 · Public Benefit
Other$307,511Human Services$27,000Philanthropy$10,500Health$5,600Public Benefit$5,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRISIS FOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOASIS WOMENS CENTER: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE INSTITUTE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE FOR HEROES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKIE LONG FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWreaths Across America: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS WOMENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKIE LONG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Virginia M Long Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia M Long Charitable 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 48 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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