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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FIT TO NAVIGATE$50,000
WORKER JUSTICE WISCONSIN$50,000
JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE LEGAL CENTER$50,000
FORWARD CITIES INC$50,000
THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION$50,000
WISCONNECT HOLDING COOPERATIVE LWCA$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
PCR BUSINESS FINANCE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CO
NE
MO
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DE
AZ
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AR
TN
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DC
LA
MS
AL
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Kitchen Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Common Future funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Common Future. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home