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Commonwealth Communications

Organized and operated exclusively to promote social welfare specifically for the purposes of promoting legislative and public action in support of non-partisan progressive values in the commonwealth of pennsylvania.

$513k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$965kCivil Rights$795kHealth$175kCommunity Improvement$55kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$50kEmployment$15k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEOPLE POWER PENNSYLVANIA$250,000
PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
CASA IN ACTION PAC$25,000
ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
PROMOTE THE VOTE PA$25,000
API PA VOTES$25,000
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY PAC$25,000
PENNSYLVANIA UNITED$25,000
WORKING FAMILIES POWER$25,000
NEW PENNSYLVANIA PROJECT$20,000
ACTION TOGETHER NEPA$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CASA IN ACTION INC: $50k → 11%CASA IN ACTION INC: $40k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$970k · 11 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$970k
$785k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • OP
    ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +41%
  • CI
    CASA IN ACTION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +88%
  • PU
    Pennsylvania United
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • PK
    Project Keystone
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

2
Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

3
Ballot Pa Action

Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.

Civil Rights
4
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
5
Pa Alliance Foundation

Pa alliance foundation ("paaf") is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania, working to expand access to the ballot through non-partisan voter education and mobilization.…

Civil Rights
6
Pennsylvania First

To invest in the activation, long-term engagement, and mobilization of

7
Pennsylvanians for Fair Courts

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, and government programs to protect against judicial gerrymandering and other legislative barriers to fair courts, and to conduct research about and publicize the positions of elected…

8
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
9
Pennsylvania Progress

Provide nonpartisan vote by mail education in pennslyvania.

10
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
11
Planned Parenthood Association of Pa

Provide public education in support of planned parenthood health services, including family planning and abortion care.

12
Lead Pa Institute

Leadership training and comprehensive professional development programs for community activists, advocates, and prospective leaders of nonprofits and other issue advocacy organizations across the

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promote the Vote Pa and the most unlike its peers is Unite Here Action Fund. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIORITIES USA ACTION — $250,000 · OtherPRIORITIES USA ACTIONPEOPLE POWER PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 · OtherPEOPLE POWER PENNSYLVANIAPLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES — $175,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTESAPI PA VOTES — $105,000 · OtherAPI PA VOTESWe The People Pennsylvania Action — $100,000 · OtherWe The People Pennsylvania ActionFOR OUR FUTURE — $75,000 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURETECH FOR CAMPAIGNS — $70,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT — $50,000 · OtherPROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 · OtherConservation Voters of Pennsylvania — $50,000 · Other+7 more — $210,000 · Other+7 moreORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $180,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIAProject Keystone — $150,000 · Civil RightsProject KeystonePennsylvania United — $75,000 · Civil RightsPennsylvania UnitedNew Pennsylvania Project — $70,000 · Civil RightsNew Pennsylvania ProjectWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION…CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · Civil RightsCASA IN ACTION INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesPROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $25,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $55,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,385,000Civil Rights$550,000Human Services$115,000Community Improvement$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $180,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetProject Keystone — $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWe The People Pennsylvania Action — $100,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC — $90,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPennsylvania United — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNew Pennsylvania Project — $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $55,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConservation Voters of Pennsylvania — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Voter Project — $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetACTION TOGETHER NEPA — $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPROMOTE THE VOTE PA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetUNITE HERE ACTION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Pa Alliance Action · America Votes · Tides Advocacy · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Working Families Organization Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · PA Alliance Foundation · Our American Future Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Clean and Prosperous America

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 Commonwealth Communications 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Commonwealth Communications?

    Find your warmest path to Commonwealth Communications 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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