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Commonwealth Consultants Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$11kPublic Benefit$8kAnimals$3kPhilanthropy$3kReligion$3kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUDOUN CHAMBER FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NOVEC HELPS: $550 → 7%NOVEC HELPS: $500 → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 8%NOVEC HELPS: $500 → 7%CORNERSTONES: $500 → 6%NOVEC HELPS: $500 → 7%CORNERSTONES INC: $500 → 6%CORNERSTONES: $200 → 6%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Commonwealth Consultants Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Commonwealth Consultants Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 7 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$18k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+48%

Still filing today

71%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitAnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +58%
  • CS
    CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +157%
  • CI
    CORNERSTONES INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • H
    HOMEAID
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • BI
    BRITEPATHS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -17%
  • MS
    MUSKEGON SUPPER HOUSE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its 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.

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Cornerstones Housing Corporation

Cornerstones housing corporation (chc) operates as the affordable housing arm of cornerstones, inc. together, cornerstones and its subsidiary chc have served fairfax county low- to moderate-income residents for over 50 years. working in…

Housing & Shelter
2
SupportWorks Housing

We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

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3
Shelter House Inc

Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
5
Novaco Inc

Novaco helps homeless victims of domestic abuse become healthy, secure and self-sufficient through community collaboration to provide housing, education, childcare, counseling, mentoring and financial management.

Human Services
6
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
7
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
8
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
9
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter
10
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties

To grow community giving by fostering a community of grantmakers, promoting strategic local leadership, and investing in partnerships for the benefit of the community of loudoun and northern fauquier.

Philanthropy
11
Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance

Increase supply of and equitable access to affordable housing in Northern Virginia through education, advocacy, and community partnership.

Housing & Shelter
12
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstones Inc; the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMEAID: $8,100 · OtherHOMEAIDLOUDOUN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLOUDOUN CHAMBER FOUNDATIONBRITEPATHS INC: $1,500 · OtherBRITEPATHS INCMUSKEGON SUPPER HOUSE PROGRAM: $1,500 · OtherMUSKEGON SUPPER HOUSE PROGRAMGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,500 · OtherGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCHGeorge Mason University: $1,250 · OtherMONTAUK WE HOPE INC: $1,000 · OtherINOVA LIFE WITH CANCER: $1,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $1,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNCIL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $1,000 · OtherPATH INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,125 · Other+8 moreNorthern Virginia Transportation Education Foundation: $8,250 · Public BenefitNorthern Virginia T…NOVEC Helps: $2,050 · Human ServicesNOVEC Help…CORNERSTONES INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesCORNERSTON…THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE MONTGO…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $2,750 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,500 · AnimalsCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS: $250 · Housing & ShelterA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$25,975Public Benefit$8,250Human Services$4,250Philanthropy$2,750Animals$2,500Housing & Shelter$2,250Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Virginia Transportation Education Foundation: $8,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK WE HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Van Metre Companies F…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…The Ayco Charitable F…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Van Metre Companies Foundation IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: 19% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 28 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-PF 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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