· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of COMMON STREAM INC #0745935’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k51 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MWC FOUNDATION INC | $2,148,418 |
| MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL | $105,000 |
| BOSTON TENANT COALITION | $90,000 |
| NEW WORLD FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $90,000 |
| ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $90,000 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS | $90,000 |
| VERMONT WORKERS CENTER | $90,000 |
| WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | $90,000 |
| ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND | $90,000 |
| CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION | $80,000 |
| DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY | $80,000 |
| CENTER OF LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | $80,000 |
| KENTUCKY COALITION | $80,000 |
| ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +210%
- ACALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS4× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +246%
MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- MRMOVEMENT RESOURCE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $50k
- OROHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
- PSPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INCone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue -46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Clean water action is a national citizens organization working for clean, safe, and affrodable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and busnesses and empowerment of people to make…
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
The water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.
We engage, empower, and elect alaskans to stand up for our clean air and water, healthy communities, and a strong democracy.
To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.
The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks called "food forests" for permanent protection and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hyams Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS ↗
- Who funds THE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LOWLANDER CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Farmworker Association of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRO PRESENTE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The New World Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Solidago Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Common Stream Inc #0745935 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Service Care Inc — 10% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Out Now Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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