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Common Future

COMMON FUTURE is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Community Improvement$4.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$278kCrime & Legal$175kReligion$130kFood & Nutrition$120kHousing & Shelter$97kEmployment$74kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POSSIBILITY LABS$100,000
UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY$50,000
BUILDERS OF THE HIGHWAY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
REMIX IDEAS$50,000
WORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN$50,000
JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE LEGAL CENTER$50,000
WISCONNECT HOLDING COOPERATIVE LWCA$50,000
FORWARD CITIES INC$50,000
FIT TO NAVIGATE$50,000
THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTHWESTBRONX COMMUNITY AND CLERGY COALITION INC$25,000
MARY MITCHELL FAMILY AND YOUTH CENTER INC$25,000
FOUR DAY WORKWEEK CAMPAIGN$20,000
COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC$15,000
CDC SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE - V$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POSSIBILITY LABS: $100k → 10%THE TENDER FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%Community Credit Lab: $15k → 9%Thai Community Dev Center: $47k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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CO
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MO
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AZ
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$794k · 8 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
54

Total granted

$794k
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentHousing & ShelterSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MP
    Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $272k · revenue +44%
  • CL
    CHANGE LABS
    2× · 2020–2022 · $195k · revenue +103%
  • MB
    MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • CU
    CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +145% · 57% of their budget
  • CK
    COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $172k · revenue +57%
  • CJ
    COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI
    one grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +93%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

Community Improvement
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
4
Transform Finance Inc

To align capital with social justice values, and help activists and community leaders access capital as a tool for transformative social change. we empower community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them - both in terms of holding…

Community Improvement
5
The Capital Good Fund

To create pathways out of poverty and advance a green economy through inclusive financial services.

Community Improvement
6
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
7
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
8
Center for Community Wealth Building

To build an inclusive economy that works for all.

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9
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative

Community Cooperative's mission is to support entrepreneurs and organizations advancing the cooperative and solidarity economy through connection to funding, training, workshops, networks, and resources that foster leadership in the…

Social Science
10
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc

Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.

Housing & Shelter
11
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cihuapactli Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%27%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,485

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/69
Grantees still filing
43/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc — $271,800 · Community ImprovementMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace IncCHANGE LABS — $195,000 · Community ImprovementCHANGE LABSCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC — $171,667 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INCLowcountry Local First — $125,000 · Community ImprovementRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $125,000 · Community ImprovementICAFUND — $125,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $125,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Community ImprovementEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $125,000 · Community ImprovementHigher Purpose Hub — $125,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $118,705 · Community Improvement+19 more — $606,875 · Community Improvement+19 moreEAST CLEVELAND GROWTH ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · OtherEAST CLEVELAND GROWTH ASSOC…WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC — $125,000 · OtherWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY I…FIT TO NAVIGATE — $50,000 · OtherNext City Inc — $50,000 · OtherJustice for the People Legal Center — $50,000 · OtherKENESHIA RAYMOND — $50,000 · OtherHOZHONIGO CONSULTING LLC — $50,000 · OtherREMIX IDEAS — $50,000 · OtherWISCONNECT HOLDING COOPERATIVE LWCA — $50,000 · OtherMIREN — $50,000 · OtherCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation — $125,000 · OtherCenter for Heirs' Property …PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED — $50,000 · OtherPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $46,667 · OtherImperial Valley Wellness Foundation — $50,000 · OtherBuilders of The Highway Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Other+14 more — $381,000 · Other+14 moreTIDES CENTER — $250,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI — $160,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION …POSSIBILITY LABS — $100,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY …THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $46,667 · Human ServicesTHAI COMMUNI…TENDER FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO FUND — $70,000 · EducationAspire Community Capital — $65,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $60,490 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationFAMILY AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES — $40,000 · EducationCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $250,000 · Social ScienceUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $50,000 · Social ScienceMortar Cincinnati — $125,000 · EmploymentWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN — $50,000 · EmploymentMISSISSIPPI DELTA COUNCIL F0R WORKERS OPPORTUNITIES INC — $23,700 · EmploymentMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$2,489,047Other$1,352,667Human Services$596,667Education$410,490Social Science$300,000Employment$198,700Philanthropy$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc — $271,800 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE — $250,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE LABS — $195,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC — $171,667 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI — $160,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLowcountry Local First — $125,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $125,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation — $125,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetICAFUND — $125,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $125,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetLAUNCH INC — $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $125,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub — $125,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $118,705 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $70,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVILLAGE MICRO FUND — $70,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAspire Community Capital — $65,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $60,490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNext City Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJustice for the People Legal Center — $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImperial Valley Wellness Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAfrican American Alliance of CDFI CEOs — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORWARD CITIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $46,667 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $46,667 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFORGE INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFONDREN RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC — $41,875 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY AGRICULTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDELTA FRESH FOODS INITIATIVE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Big We — $40,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTRIANGLE STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL ADVISING FOR NOT-FOR-PROFITS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Surdna Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationWells Fargo FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…Truist Foundation IncThe Kresge FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationNovo FoundationLocal Initiatives Sup…
Surdna Foundation IncNY42.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Common Future funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
  • African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs — 3% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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