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CommonHealth ACTION

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

$183k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$319kCivil Rights$275kCommunity Improvement$116kPhilanthropy$52kFood & Nutrition$25kEmployment$10k
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $171,946, the rows itemized in this filing. The $182,567 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,621 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fusion Partnerships$51,805
Chase Brexton Health Services$25,000
Intersection of Change$25,000
Dovecote Cafe$25,000
Caswell Family Medical Center$10,000
Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc$10,000
North Carolina Community Health Center Association$9,301
Sandhills Cooperation Association$8,000
West Marion Community Forum INC$7,840
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%North Carolina Community Health Center Association: $9k → 8%Sandhills Cooperation Association: $8k → 10%West Marion Community Forum INC: $8k → 16%Caswell Family Medical Center: $10k → 17%Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $10k → 21%FUSION PARTNERSHIPS ON BEHALF OF BALTIMORE ACTION LEGAL TEAM AND NEW LENS: $100k → 19%Fusion Partnerships: $100k → 19%Fusion Partnerships: $52k → 19%FUSION PARTNERSHIPS ON BEHALF OF BALTIMORE ACTION LEGAL TEAM AND NEW LENS: $50k → 19%Intersection of Change: $50k → 19%INTERSECTION OF CHANGE HARRIS-MARCUS CENTER: $50k → 19%DOVECOTE CAFE: $50k → 19%Dovecote Cafe: $50k → 19%DOVECOTE CAFE: $25k → 19%Intersection of Change: $25k → 19%Dovecote Cafe: $25k → 19%INTERSECTION OF CHANGE HARRIS-MARCUS CENTER: $25k → 19%Chase Brexton Health Services: $50k → 19%CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES: $50k → 19%CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES: $25k → 19%Chase Brexton Health Services: $25k → 19%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$752k · 4 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$752k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+163%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
HealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FP
    FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $302k · revenue -20%
  • IO
    INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +61%
  • CB
    CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • OI
    Opportunities Industrialization Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +163%
  • CH
    COMPASSION HEALTH CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +96%
  • NC
    North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +326%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Southeast Community Health Systems

The mission of Southeast Community Health Systems is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to all patients in underserved areas and to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.

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2
Community Health Partnership Inc

Community Health Partnership advocates for quality, affordable, accessible and culturally competent health care systems that demonstrate respect and compassion for our diverse communities.

Unclassified
3
Community First Health Centers

We provide high quality, patient centered health care that is respectful, compassionate and accessible to all members of our community.

Health
4
Preventative Care Health Services Inc

The mission of Preventative Care Health Services (PCHS) is to provide comprehensive primary health care, healthcare maintenance, and chronic disease management that are accessible to all people through an affordable and…

—
5
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health
6
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
7
Portsmouth Community Health Center Inc

Hampton Roads Community Health Center is a not-for-profit comprehensive primary health care organization dedicated to providing quality and affordable health services in a safe environment to our communities.

—
8
Randolph County Health Department

To provide quality services to protect maintain and enhance community well-being by promoting conditions in which people can achieve their maximum level of health

Health
9
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
10
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
11
Progressive Community Health Centers Inc

Progressive Community Health Centers exists to improve the health and quality of life of the community by providing culturally competent services that addresses identified needs.

Health
12
Community Health Connections Inc

To improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the service area where services are provided through a network of high quality comprehensive health care, dental and pharmaceutical services

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Health Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is West Marion Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $150,000 · HealthINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INCCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $150,000 · HealthCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC+2 more: $19,301 · Health+2 moreFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $301,805 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC+1 more: $7,840 · Community ImprovementDOVECOTE CAFE: $150,000 · OtherDOVECOTE CAFEOpportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $10,000 · OtherOpportunities Industri…SANDHILLS COOPERATION ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Civil Rights
Health$319,301Community Improvement$309,645Other$160,000Civil Rights$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $301,805 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $150,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION HEALTH CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc: $9,301 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANDHILLS COOPERATION ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWEST MARION INC: $7,840 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Blue Cross and Blue S…
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc FoundationNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Chase Brexton Health Services Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to CommonHealth ACTION?

Find your warmest path to CommonHealth ACTION through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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