Missouri · Nonprofit
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,186,977 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($291,732). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $672k
What Chris Long Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the foundation is to mobilize champions, service providers, and experts to help communities access clean water, address basic needs for youth and families, and inspire others to make an impact at home and abroad. The foundation's vision is access and opportunity everywhere.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Waterboys is the signature initiative of the foundation and is dedicated to raising funds and awareness to provide clean water to one million people worldwide. Internationally, waterboys funds the construction of solar powered deep borehole wells in east africa. In the united states, waterboys focuses on providing clean water access in schools, rural households and the navajo nation. Waterboys uses a collective impact model that unites professional athletes, fans, corporate sponsors, military veterans and other charitable organizations around the shared cause of tacking the clean water crisis. Waterboys has five main program initiatives that support its international and domestic work: nfl waterboys, hoops2o, hometown h2o, conquering kili, and water4her.
$881,633 spentof which $643,848 as grants92% of program spendingEdzone is the foundation's program that supports educational equity and opportunity. The foundation has identified organizations that focus on making quality education easily accessible to underserved youth, including through the provision of essential needs item and scholarships. These organizations are the edzone initiative's benefitting partner organizations, and they are based in three communities in which chris long played during his collegiate and nfl career: charlottesville, philadelphia, and st. Louis. In partnership with its athlete ambassadors, the foundation also promotes early literacy for young children in elementary schools across the country, building a love of reading among students and excitement and awareness among partners and caregivers around the role they play in raising readers. The program focuses specifically on reading at grade level by fourth grade to address the documented connection between fourth grade reading proficiency and long-term academic success and high school graduation.
$76,664 spentof which $55,987 as grants8% of program spendingN/a
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The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $958,297.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.0M (−36%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $247k.
14 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 75% · 2019 62% · 2020 23% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
21% of CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $852k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION?
- CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,186,977 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($291,732). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,186,977 in grants to CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $291,732 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing