Massachusetts · Private foundation
Common Stream Inc #0745935
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,148,418
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Common Stream Inc #0745935 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $5.9M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $3.9M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $4.3M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $6.8M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc | $295,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Alaska Community Action on Toxics | $225,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Massachusetts Senior Action Council Inc | $215,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Boston Tenant Coalition Inc | $215,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Alaska Conservation Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dogwood Alliance Inc | $195,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Kentucky Coalition Inc | $195,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $195,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Urban Revival Inc | $195,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Common Stream Inc #0745935 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Common Stream Inc #0745935
- How much does Common Stream Inc #0745935 give?
- Common Stream Inc #0745935 reported 64 grants totaling $5,998,418 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Common Stream Inc #0745935 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Environment (14%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are Common Stream Inc #0745935's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc ($295k), Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc ($250k), Alaska Community Action on Toxics ($225k).
- Does Common Stream Inc #0745935 fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Common Stream Inc #0745935 accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Common Stream Inc #0745935?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The New World Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Common Stream Inc #0745935 based?
- Common Stream Inc #0745935 is based in MA.
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