· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOTHERS 4 JUSTICE INC (BLAMOT) | $1,000 |
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SOCIAL ART AND CULTURE (SOCART) | $1,000 |
| TRIUMPHANT LEADERS OF DMV YOUTH PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| THE WOMEN INVOLVED IN REENTRY EFFORTS (TWIIRE) | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC (ANACOO) | $1,000 |
| AALIYAH IN ACTION (AALACT) | $1,000 |
| ACEE THE FIRM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| MOMMAS SAFE HAVEN | $1,000 |
| THE HELPING OUR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT GROUP INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +64%
- TBTINAS BABYone grant, 2020 · $4k
- RAREINTEGRATING ALTERNATIVES PERSONAL PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Center for Nonprofit Advancement · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Commons Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commons Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ebony Horsewomen Inc: 18% of income from government
How this is measured
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