Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FOR THE LONG TERM
FOR THE LONG TERM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,250 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,865,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What For the Long Term does
Mission
For the Long Term's (ftlt) mission is to help state, city, and county public fiscal officers leverage the power of their roles to deliver sustainable long-term growth for the benefit of their public beneficiaries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Public treasurers are government officials who provide professional financial management and accountability for a variety of public funds.there are a growing number of 501(c)(3) organizations working to help train and encourage public treasurers to leverage their power as owners, issuers, fiduciaries, and customers to invest in ways that improve environmental and social outcomes for the public. However, existing 501(c)(3) organizations have faced challenges working with the public treasurers who serve as fiduciaries of public sector institutions and funds. First, public treasurers operate within a bureaucracy and cannot react as quickly and need a more proactive frame in which to engage. Second, public (continued on schedule o)treasurers enter and leave their roles with greater frequency due to restrictions such as term limits.public treasurers also often enter government with a learning curve about their rights as an owner and their responsibilities as a public fiduciary, and state and local governments often lack adequate resources and tools necessary to full train and onboard these treasurers. Nonprofit organizations have a vital role to play in helping to educate public…
$740,663 spent$15,920 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $740,663.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $129k to $1.2M (+798%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of FOR THE LONG TERM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
David Wallack
Chair/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200k → $1.0M.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FOR THE LONG TERM’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FOR THE LONG TERM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
FOR THE LONG TERM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FOR THE LONG TERM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOR THE LONG TERM
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOR THE LONG TERM: 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 FOR THE LONG TERM?
- FOR THE LONG TERM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,250 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,865,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOR THE LONG TERM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,432,250 in grants to FOR THE LONG TERM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOR THE LONG TERM?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,865,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOR THE LONG TERM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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