· Private foundation
Common Sense Educational Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NENATIONAL ETHNIC ALBANIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue -70% · 49% of their budget
- FMFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +90%
- TFTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- WPWESTCHESTER PUBLICPRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR AGING SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $2k
- UUSAFMCone grant, 2022 · $800
- SAST AUGUSTINE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
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A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.
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The chartered alternative investment analyst association, inc. (caia) is a global professional credentialing body dedicated to creating greater alignment, transparency, and knowledge for all investors, with a specific emphasis on…
Constituting america's mission is to educate students and adults about the constitution through the culture. constituting america's mission is to utilize the culture: film, internet, tv and social media to reach, educate and inform…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
Educate/advocate for effective corporate governance and public company disclosure, strong shareholder rights and fair capital markets.
The world affairs councils of america supports, strengthens, and represents a national network of 90 nonpartisan organizations working to deepen their communities' global perspective.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL ETHNIC ALBANIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE ↗
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- Who funds GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC ↗
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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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Common Sense Educational Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Common Sense Educational Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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