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Michigan · Public charity

Common Ground

With the mission of "helping people move from crisis to hope," COMMON GROUND is dedicated to helping youths, adults and families by providing programs and services in three distinct impact areas: responding to crisis; providing safety and advocacy; and building communities of support where none exist.

$204k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$151k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$151,484
Largest grant, FY2024
$151,484
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$196kReligion$39k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lighthouse of Oakland County$195,657213%
Troy Church of the Nazarene$39,0251n/a

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About Common Ground

How much does Common Ground give?
Common Ground reported 1 itemized grants totaling $151,484, out of $204,070 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Common Ground fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (83%), Religion (17%).
Who are Common Ground's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Lighthouse of Oakland County ($196k), Troy Church of the Nazarene ($39k).
Where is Common Ground based?
Common Ground is based in MI.

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 2 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $64k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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