Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,223,399
- Total expenses
- $4,177,609
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,586,638
- Grants paid
- $79,000
- Program service revenue
- $646,794
- Investment income
- $1,386,343
- Other revenue
- $603,624
- Total assets, end of year
- $20,463,072
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $8,547,126
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $11,915,946
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,032,000
- Management and general expenses
- $873,648
- Fundraising expenses
- $271,961
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,032,000
Program services were 72.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1b · Membership dues
$678,100
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$908,538
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$233,623
-
2a · Program service revenue: CLOCK
total $145,521 · related or exempt $145,521
-
2b · Program service revenue: OTHER PROGRAM REVENUE
total $446,004 · related or exempt $446,004
-
2c · Program service revenue: TALKS
total $55,269 · related or exempt $55,269
-
2d · Program service revenue: THE INTERVAL
-
3 · Investment income
total $646,089 · excluded $646,089
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $1,984,833
-
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $1,244,579
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $740,254
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $740,254 · related or exempt $740,254
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10a · Gross sales of inventory
$819,024
-
10b · Cost of goods sold
$215,400
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $603,624 · excluded $603,624
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $79,000 · program services $79,000
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $1,001,182 · program services $733,040 · management and general $192,083 · fundraising $76,059
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,167,342 · program services $854,690 · management and general $223,970 · fundraising $88,682
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $72,741 · program services $31,710 · management and general $32,331 · fundraising $8,700
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $149,156 · program services $126,631 · management and general $15,931 · fundraising $6,594
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $174,548 · program services $138,960 · management and general $22,611 · fundraising $12,977
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $15,303 · program services $1,018 · management and general $14,285
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $118,992 · program services $6,605 · management and general $112,387
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $146,525 · program services $37,294 · management and general $109,231
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $105,486 · program services $59,759 · management and general $45,727
-
17 · Travel
total $98,211 · program services $93,011 · management and general $3,802 · fundraising $1,398
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $51,985 · program services $51,263 · fundraising $722
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $75,400 · program services $71,144 · management and general $4,256
-
23 · Insurance
total $41,933 · program services $5,182 · management and general $36,751
-
24a · Other expenses: THE INTERVAL COST OF COGS
total $215,401 · program services $214,224 · fundraising $1,177
-
24b · Other expenses: PROGRAM FEES
total $210,582 · program services $180,582 · fundraising $30,000
-
24c · Other expenses: MATERIALS & SUPPLIES
total $203,677 · program services $187,636 · management and general $3,998 · fundraising $12,043
-
24d · Other expenses: PLATFORM SERVICE FEES
total $76,712 · program services $29,484 · management and general $45,371 · fundraising $1,857
-
24e · All other expenses
total $173,433 · program services $130,767 · management and general $10,914 · fundraising $31,752
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $265,997 · end of year $271,358
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $11,444,936 · end of year $9,253,886
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $500,000 · end of year $1,000,000
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $544,406 · end of year $290,350
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $66,497 · end of year $61,754
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $28,003 · end of year $41,396
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$1,652,124
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$1,202,769
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $524,756 · end of year $449,355
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $4,624,030 · end of year $6,953,301
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $2,577,623 · end of year $2,141,672
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $173,419 · end of year $72,756
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $8,895,739 · end of year $8,474,370
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $49,798
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $8,175,249 · end of year $8,599,872
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,282,043 · end of year $3,316,074
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility, operating within the context of the next and last 10,000 years a timespan we call the long now.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Long Now Foundation is a globally-recognized champion of long-term thinking and responsibility, operating within the context of the next and last 10,000 years a timespan we call the long now. Founded as a nonprofit cultural institution in 01996 by Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, and Danny Hillis, Long Now launched with The Clock of the Long Now, a mythic, mechanical monument built to keep time for 10,000 years from deep inside a mountain. Our work has expanded to include our Long Now Talks lecture series, Long Now Ideas online publication, Pace Layers print journal, and bold public projects that ignite imagination, all based out of The Interval at Long Now our award-winning bar, caf, exhibit space, and event venue in San Francisco.
-
THE INTERVAL - AN AWARD WINNING BAR, CAFE AND EVENT SPACE IN SAN FRANCISCO WITH 30,000 VISITORS ANNUALY. IT FEATURES CRAFT COCKTAILS, ARTISAN COFFEE AND TEA, A BOTTLE KEEP, A CHALK BOARD-DRAWING ROBOT, AN ART INSTALLATION BY BRIAN ENO, A LIBRARY THAT STRETCHES FROM FLOOR TO CEILING, AND EXHIBITS ON LONG TERM THINKING THAT INSPIRE CURIOSITY AND WONDER.
Expenses $1,231,472 · Revenue $833,770
-
Programs - 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.
Expenses $601,071 · Revenue $4,381
-
Communications - 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.
Expenses $465,899
-
Untitled - A Project Dedicated To Laying Foundations For A Deeper Ecosystem Of Thought Around Technology, Philosophy, And The Future.
Expenses $412,488 · Revenue $860,410
-
THE 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
Expenses $140,443 · Revenue $145,521
-
LONG 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
Expenses $72,215 · Revenue $238,437
-
Sponsored Projects - umbrella category for Long Now fiscally sponsored projects.
Expenses $56,500 · Revenue $56,500
-
Deep 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.
Expenses $22,500 · Revenue $22,500
-
SPECIAL EVENTS - Fundraising and network building onsite events
Expenses $9,898
-
NEVADA - OUR NEVADA BRISTLECONE PRESERVE IS A TWO MILE LONG MOUNTAIN HABITAT OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST LIVING TREES.
Expenses $8,853 · Revenue $1,085,042
-
IDEAS - Online publication on long term thinking
Expenses $4,710
-
LONG BETS - LONG BETS IS AN ONLINE ARENA FOR ACCOUNTABLE LONG-TERM PREDICTIONS WITH ALL THE STAKES GOING TO THE VICTOR'S CHOSEN NON PROFIT.
Expenses $3,052 · Revenue $650
-
MANUAL CIVILIZATION - A small library of books which maybe needed to restart civilization from scratch
Expenses $2,578
-
ROSETTA 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
Expenses $321 · Revenue $1,039
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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.
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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.
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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.
-
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.
Revenue $685,685
-
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.
-
Fellowship - academics, authors, researchers, artists, and others dedicated to long-term thinking.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
-
Rebecca LendlREBECCA LENDL
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $286,917
- From this org
- $275,146
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,771
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $275,146
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $10,590
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,181
- Filer's total
- $286,917
-
Nicholas PaulNICHOLAS PAUL
PROJECT DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $263,457
- From this org
- $250,030
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,427
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $250,030
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,662
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,765
- Filer's total
- $263,457
-
James HomeJAMES HOME
DIRECTOR OF COMM
- Total calculated
- $226,993
- From this org
- $222,023
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,970
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $222,023
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $3,548
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,422
- Filer's total
- $226,993
-
Danielle EngelmanDANIELLE ENGELMAN
DIR OF PROGRAMS
- Total calculated
- $150,511
- From this org
- $135,072
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,439
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $135,072
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $15,439
- Filer's total
- $150,511
-
Daniel LinderDANIEL LINDER
IT DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $135,475
- From this org
- $112,261
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,214
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Patrick DowdPATRICK DOWD
President
- Total calculated
- $6,651
- From this org
- $6,651
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
-
Danny HillisDANNY HILLIS
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Stewart BrandSTEWART BRAND
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Joe SpeicherJOE SPEICHER
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Brian EnoBRIAN ENO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mick CostiganMICK COSTIGAN
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Patrick CollisonPATRICK COLLISON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kevin KellyKEVIN KELLY
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Danica RemyDANICA REMY
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
David RumseyDAVID RUMSEY
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Lisa Kaye SolomonLISA KAYE SOLOMON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Peter SchwartzPETER SCHWARTZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kim PoleseKIM POLESE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Paul SaffoPAUL SAFFO
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
David EaglemanDAVID EAGLEMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Esther DysonESTHER DYSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Doug CarlstonDOUG CARLSTON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Katherine FultonKATHERINE FULTON
CO CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Ping FuPING FU
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 11 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202503159349303805
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