Grantmaking public charityEIN 680384748
THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94147
Total Assets
$20.5M
FY 2024
Annual Giving
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FY 2024
Grants Made
0
FY 2024
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FY 2024
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Applications
Programs & Activities
Program 1
$601KPrograms - Long Now Talks, a lecture series featuring leading thinkers who share ideas with live audiences in San Francisco and millions worldwide; Centuries of the Bristlecone, an artwork by philosopher and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art in partnership with Long Now; Pace Layers, our annual journal of long-term thinking that gathers ideas, art, and insights; and other bold public projects that ignite imagination.
Program 2
$466KCommunications - Marketing, promotion and distribution of content and learnings from Long Nows programs, projects, and public resources, including our video and podcast episodes, and print and digital publishing, and long term digital archive.
Program 3
$412KUntitled - A Project Dedicated To Laying Foundations For A Deeper Ecosystem Of Thought Around Technology, Philosophy, And The Future.
Program 4
$140KThe clock of the long now - an immense mechanical monument, installed in mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millenia. Clock prototypes captivate millions of visitors online and at museums including smithsonian national air and space museum in london
Program 5
$72KLong now talks - the long now talks, launched by stewart brand in 02003, has invited more than 280 leading thinkers to share their work with a live audience and millions around the globe tuning in to our free poscast and youtube channel. Long now talks have been supported by over 12,000 members across 65 countries
Program 6
$57KSponsored Projects - umbrella category for Long Now fiscally sponsored projects.
Program 7
$23KDeep Time - a fiscally sponsored project dedicated to landing a 700-gram (1.54 lb.) aluminum time capsule containing 24 sapphire discs on the surface of the Moon.
Program 8
$10KSPECIAL EVENTS - Fundraising and network building onsite events
Program 9
$9KNevada - our nevada bristlecone preserve is a two mile long mountain habitat of the world's oldest living trees.
Program 10
$5KIDEAS - Online publication on long term thinking
Program 11
$3KLong bets - long bets is an online arena for accountable long-term predictions with all the stakes going to the victor's chosen non profit.
Program 12
$3KMANUAL CIVILIZATION - A small library of books which maybe needed to restart civilization from scratch
Program 13
$321Rosetta project - a collaboration with linguists to compile an archive of over 1,500 human languages and micro-etch it onto a series of artifacts which are distributed for long-term presentations. We mean seriously distributed - one lives on surface of the moon and another on a distant comet. You can also wear one around your neck
Program 14
PanLex - PanLex is a nonprofit program whose mission is to overcome language barriers to human rights, information, and opportunities. Their purpose is to make it so that nobody should have their rights restricted because of the language they speak.
Program 15
Membership - The Long Now Foundation's membership program has connected more than 11,000 long-term thinkers across more than 65 countries. Our global membership receives regular updates on key ideas around long-term thinking through our frequent talks, original writing and monthly newsletter, as well as special invitations to online video lectures and in-person gatherings. Each member also receives an etched stainless steel membership card featuring their unique member number. The Long Now membership program provides substantial financial support to the organization, its activities, and its programs.
Program 16
Organizational Continuity Project - The Organizational Continuity Project hopes to discover the lessons behind the longest lived organizations, and build a discipline of shareable knowledge that will help contemporary institutions, companies, and governments develop into robust, long-lasting structures. In turn, we hope these institutions will be better equipped to address civilizational-scale problems with multi-generational thinking.
Program 17
Future Fund - The purpose of these funds is to support efforts to convert Long Now from a successful start-up project into a sustainable institution that can survive for the long term.
Program 18
Naming Names - a fiscally sponsored project by artists Eve Sussman and Simon Lee dedicated to investigating the act of naming through a theatrical and sonic performance connecting the Bay Area and Athens, Greece.
Program 19
Fellowship - academics, authors, researchers, artists, and others dedicated to long-term thinking.
Focus Areas
Financial Snapshot
2024 filing
Total Revenue
$4.2M
Total Expenses
$4.2M
Giving Over Time
2 years
Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.
Top Recipients
3 grants
Grant Size Distribution
3 grants
Geographic Focus
2 states
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