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Commonweal

Engage in educational, charitable and research activities which contribute to the health of individuals, to public health and to the health of the global environment.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$208kPublic Benefit$113kHealth$96kCommunity Improvement$87kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kArts & Culture$28kScience & Tech$20k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $50,661, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,171 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,510 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.
$28,161
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Whidbey Island Arts Council$28,161
Healthy Democracy Fund$22,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $96k → 10%COMFND OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $10k → 16%THE HALE FUND: $90k → 8%INQUIRING SYSTEMS: $87k → 9%PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK: $63k → 10%Healthy Democracy Fund: $23k → 12%GORDON RESEARCH: $10k → 7%Whidbey Island Arts Council: $28k → 7%HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $63k → 6%GLOBAL CHEMICAL SAFETY FUND: $63k → 10%GORDON RESEARCH: $10k → 7%GAIA: $63k → 10%CENTER OF STUDY OF AMERICAS: $10k → 10%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 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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
World Federalist Association

Educate and advocate for a democratic federation of nations with enforceable world law to: abolish war and global violence in the resolution of disputes; protect universal human rights and freedoms; and restore and sustain our global…

International
3
Engineers Without Borders- International

EWB International seeks to promote collaboration of the global EWB movement. Together we work towards a sustainable world, where engineering enables long-term positive social and economic development, for the benefit of people and the…

International
4
International Council On Environmental Economics and Development Union
Human Services
5
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
6
Global Health Council

Global health council is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers, and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide. the global health council, inc. (the "council"ghc") was…

International
7
Science & Environmental Health Network

In service to communities, the earth and future generations, the science and environmental health network forges science, ethics, and law into tools for action.

Environment
8
International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics

The International Center for Food Ontology Operability Data and Semantics IC-FOODS has a stated mission to create the foundations for global decentralized traceable transparent and trustworthy food systems. We develop shared language…

Food & Nutrition
9
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
10
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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11
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech
12
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Democracy Fund; the most unlike its peers is Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $95,907 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCESGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $62,500 · EnvironmentGlobal Alliance for Incinerator AlternativesHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $62,500 · EnvironmentHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARMPesticide Action Network North America: $62,500 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North AmericaTHE HALE FUND: $90,000 · OtherTHE HALE FUNDGLOBAL CHEMICAL SAFETY FUND: $62,500 · OtherGLOBAL CHEMICAL SAFETY FUNDCenter for the study of the Americas: $10,000 · OtherCenter for the study of the Am…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $86,643 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEM…ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $28,161 · Arts & CultureHEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND: $22,500 · Civil RightsGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $20,000 · Science & TechCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$283,407Other$162,500Community Improvement$86,643Arts & Culture$28,161Civil Rights$22,500Science & Tech$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $95,907 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE HALE FUND: $90,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $86,643 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $62,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $62,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $62,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND: $22,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the study of the Americas: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Commonweal funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonweal. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Commonweal?

    Find your warmest path to Commonweal 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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