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Common Sense Society

COMMON SENSE SOCIETY's mission is to promote the principles of liberty, prosperity, and beauty.

$445k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$205k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$705kCivil Rights$61kEducation$32kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$11k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $273,303, the rows itemized in this filing. The $445,184 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $171,881 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $205k
$49,803
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION$205,000
VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE$49,803
THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL$11,500
THE ALLIANCE OF RHODES SCHOLARS INC$7,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–23, $705k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION: $205k → 14%EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION: $100k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $166k on the FY2023 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$166k · 100% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 7 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Edmund Burke Foundation Inc: $705,000 · Human ServicesEdmund Burke Foundation IncVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE: $49,803 · OtherVICTIMS OF CO…CLASSIC LEARNING INITIATIVES: $25,000 · OtherCLASSIC LEARN…FUNDACION DEMOCRATICA: $20,000 · OtherFUNDACION DEM…ALLIANCE OF RHODES SCHOLARS INC: $7,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF R…THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL: $11,500 · Civil RightsTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$705,000Other$101,803Civil Rights$11,500Arts & Culture$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEdmund Burke Foundation Inc: $705,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON COUNCIL: $11,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Edmund Burke Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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