North Carolina · Nonprofit
LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS
LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Longleaf Productions does
Mission
Longleaf Productions creates documentary films of historical, cultural, educational and environmental subjects that would otherwise be overlooked in order to make everyone aware of subjects and needs that go unnoticed or are buried in history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina. This is a re-edit of the film originally produced in 2023. It was produced under a format set by the original grantee and was not formatted for television. This project is to lengthen the film to fit the one hour television format which we coordinated with South Carolina Educational Television in order for it to be shown on the statewide network and made available to schools. This project has no funding and is undertaken at our expense.
$2,007 spent100% of program spendingSiloam School Restoration. Film in progress documenting the moving and restoration of the Siloam School to its final home, The Charlotte Museum of History. Siloam School is the last of the Rosenwald design school remaining in Mecklenburg County. It was moved to the grounds of the Charlotte Museum of History where it will become a permanent exhibit portraying the history of African American education in the setting of a 1927 school house restored to the original. School Groups schedule regular excursions to the school during the years they study North Carolina and American History. It is the only such school that is restored to the way it was in the 1920's when the school was built meaning no electricity or air conditioning so that the visitors can really feel what the experience was students in that period of history.
$0 spentof which $1,000 as grants0% of program spendingRosenwald Schools of Virginia. 30 minute film documenting the unique role the Rosenwald Schools played in educating African American children in Virginia during the Jim Crow era. Virginia is the birthplace of Booker T. Washington and is the home of Hampton Institute where he was educated and later taught. The film also highlights several other notable African Americans who made major contributions to black education in Virginia. The effort here has been to get the film shown on local and public television around the state by contacting program representatives and others. The film has been shown on Tidewater Public Television and at the Virginia Museum of History. Other venues are pending. We have spent no money on this effort only our time and have received no grants.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,007.
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 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $6k (−81%).
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.
100% of LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $20k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS’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
LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
87% of LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS's revenue fell 99% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$120k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS?
- LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONGLEAF PRODUCTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Longleaf Productions →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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