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Commons Impact Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANACOSTIA AMP OUTREACH EMPOWERMENT CENTERYOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MY AUNT'S HOUSE INC (MYAUNT) | $1,000 |
| TEACHING RAMBUNCTIOUS ADOLESCENTS PEACEFUL POSITUDE (TRAPP STARS INC) (TEAR | $1,000 |
| TRIUMPHANT LEADERS OF DMV YOUTH PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| ANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC (ANACOO) | $1,000 |
| AALIYAH IN ACTION (AALACT) | $1,000 |
| ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| MOMMAS SAFE HAVEN | $1,000 |
| ANGELS OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SOCIAL ART AND CULTURE (SOCART) | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ACEE THE FIRM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE HELPING OUR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT GROUP INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| MINT PROJECT INC (MINPRO) | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $18k) 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 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CECOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROJECT4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +5%
- WTWOODLAND TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue ×14
- SASOCIAL ART AND CULTURE2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- LHLYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEASTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +61%
- TBTINAS BABYone grant, 2020 · $4k
- RAREINTEGRATING ALTERNATIVES PERSONAL PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $4k
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 and uplift the youth in under-resourced areas through comprehensive programming that takes a holistic approach for no cost or financial burden.
Connect and expose Latinas to opportunities that enrich their future through education mentoring and leadership development.
Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…
Youth leadership program
To empower youth and young adults through educational programs mentorship and career development opportunities supporting their personal and professional growth in underserved communities.
Community Development Corporation - capacity building in youth and parents around areas of leadership development support and education housing
Enrichment and youth outreach
The mission of IBIM Girls is to empower girls to B.E.L.I.E.V.E (Become Emerging Leaders Inspiring Excellence and Values Everyday) through group mentoring and leadership training necessary to become responsible, productive and successful…
We serve young people in the nations capital through leadership workforce development mental health and wellness programming.
Walker Mill Community Development Corporation is to support the poor and need. We feed people who are hungry more by partnering with the Washington, DC food bank. We also work to train families how to grow their own food by partnering with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Our People Empowerment Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Social Art and Culture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 WOMEN INVOLVED IN REENTRY EFFORTS ↗
- Who funds ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mommas Safe Haven ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HELPING OUR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ART AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds Soul Trak Outdoors ↗
- Who funds Ebony Horsewomen Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds William O Lockridge Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Center for Nonprofit Advancement · Amazonsmile 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 Commons Impact Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ebony Horsewomen Inc — 18% 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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