California · Public charity
Common Future
COMMON FUTURE is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. And canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. We envision an economy that has transitioned from the extractive accumulation of wealth and centralization of power to one that redistributes…
- $680k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Common Future funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $680k | 94% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $226k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $515k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $175k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc | $271,800 | 2 | 5% |
| Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative | $250,000 | 1 | 57% |
| Change Labs | $195,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Commonwealth Kitchen Inc | $171,667 | 1 | 3% |
| Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi | $160,000 | 1 | 14% |
| East Cleveland Growth Association | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lowcountry Local First | $125,000 | 1 | 9% |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mortar Cincinnati | $125,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Center for Heirs' Property Preservation | $125,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 78 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Common Future supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Surdna Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Novo Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
How this is measured
About Common Future
- How much does Common Future give?
- Common Future reported 17 grants totaling $680,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Common Future fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (80%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are Common Future's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc ($272k), Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative ($250k), Change Labs ($195k).
- Does Common Future fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Common Future?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Surdna Foundation Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Common Future based?
- Common Future is based in CA.
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