Virginia · Private foundation
Commonwealth Consultants Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Commonwealth Consultants Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $3k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $3k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $700 | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $8k | 90% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $5k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $4k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Virginia Transportation Education Foundation | $8,250 | 5 | 1% |
| People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| NOVEC Helps | $2,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Carpenter's Shelter Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Britepaths Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstones Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Montauk We Hope Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Virginia Transportation Education Foundation | $8,250 | 5 | 1% |
| People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| NOVEC Helps | $2,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Carpenter's Shelter Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Britepaths Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstones Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Montauk We Hope Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Caritas | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| The Fairfax County Park Foundation Inc | $225 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Mother of Good Counsel | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Fairfax County Animal Shelter | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Commonwealth Consultants Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Commonwealth Consultants Foundation with peer funders
About Commonwealth Consultants Foundation
- How much does Commonwealth Consultants Foundation give?
- Commonwealth Consultants Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Commonwealth Consultants Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (24%), Public Benefit (18%).
- Who are Commonwealth Consultants Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Virginia Transportation Education Foundation ($8k), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc ($3k), NOVEC Helps ($2k).
- Does Commonwealth Consultants Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Commonwealth Consultants Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Commonwealth Consultants Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company, United Way of the National Capital Area.
- Where is Commonwealth Consultants Foundation based?
- Commonwealth Consultants Foundation is based in VA.
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