· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k 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
- OPORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +41%
- CICASA IN ACTION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +88%
- PUPennsylvania United2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PUPRIORITIES USA ACTIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
- PKProject Keystoneone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +5%
- FOFOR OUR FUTUREone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Informed and educated the public and lawmakers about the benefits of including independent voters in Pennsylvania's primary elections.
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…
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.…
To invest in the activation, long-term engagement, and mobilization of
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…
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
Provide nonpartisan vote by mail education in pennslyvania.
) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors
Provide public education in support of planned parenthood health services, including family planning and abortion care.
Leadership training and comprehensive professional development programs for community activists, advocates, and prospective leaders of nonprofits and other issue advocacy organizations across the
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Project Keystone ↗
- Who funds We The People Pennsylvania Action ↗
- Who funds CASA IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania United ↗
- Who funds New Pennsylvania Project ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 26 PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds The Voter Project ↗
- Who funds ACTION TOGETHER NEPA ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE THE VOTE PA ↗
- Who funds CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITE HERE ACTION FUND ↗
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: 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.
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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