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Commonwealth National Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Health$150kHuman Services$63kPublic Benefit$30kYouth Development$13kEducation$13kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS$10,000
FOR PETE'S SAKE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
ETC FOUNDATION$3,500
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY$3,500
PGA REACH$2,500
OHAAT BEDS FOR KIDS$2,500
HATBORO HORSHAM EDUCATIONAL FD$2,500
CURE SPG47$2,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$2,000
ASSOC FOR ADULTS W DEV DISAB$1,000
THE GIVING TREE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3k → 22%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $4k → 7%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3k → 7%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3k → 7%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $3k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $2k → 7%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$322k · 17 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +175% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$322k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+175%
+24%

Still filing today

35%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SE
    Special Equestrians Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +92%
  • FP
    FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +307%
  • OH
    ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • RV
    RSVP Volunteers
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +24%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -57%
  • HN
    HORSHAM NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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
Hatchers Stocking Inc
Human Services
2
Super Heroes With Super Kids
Philanthropy
3
Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc

Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a genetic disease that causes loss of muscle control and balance, cancer, lung disease, and immune system problems in children and young adults, shortening their lives. The nonprofit A-T Children's Project…

Science & Tech
4
Adventures With Autism Inc

Adventures adventures with autism sponsors and matches professionally trained, autism therapy dogs with targeted families in need.

Health
5
Is Able Childrens Foundation
Religion
6
See the Magic

Focused on enhancing the hospital experience of children and adolescents undergoing treatment at pediatric cancer facilities across the u.s.

Health
7
Blossoming in Nature
Youth Development
8
Be the Rainbow Foundation

Be The Rainbow Foundation provides support to families facing childhood cancer by partnering with families and family support organizations, helping to relieve some of the financial and emotional burdens that come with a pediatric cancer…

Health
9
Saratoga Therapeutic Equestrian Program

Established in 1986, Saratoga Therapeutic Equestrian Program (STEP) is a charitable not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, registered in New York State and located at New Forest Equestrian Centre in Glenville, NY. STEP is dedicated to…

Animals
10
Pediatric Research and Advocacy Initiative

PRAI exists to spread awareness of neuroimmune disorders, advocate for patient care and support data-driven research that will ultimately lead to effective treatments and cures for these disorders.

Health
11
Victory Hill Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc

To empower both children and adults with a broad range of special needs by providing the highest quality equine assisted activities

Human Services
12
Delaware Dreams Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Today Is a Good Day and the most unlike its peers is Hatboro-Horsham Educational Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GILDA'S CLUB — $40,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUBCROSSING THE FINISH LINE (FOR PETE'S SAKE) — $30,000 · OtherCROSSING THE FINISH LINE (FOR PETE'S SAKE)ETC FOUNDATION — $19,000 · OtherETC FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPGA REACH — $10,000 · OtherPGA REACHIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $6,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,500 · Other+7 more — $11,500 · Other+7 moreSpecial Equestrians Inc — $90,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Equestrians IncFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION — $37,500 · HealthFOR PETE'S SAKE…AFTER THE GLOW INC — $5,500 · HealthAFTER THE GLOW …Cure AP4 Inc — $2,000 · HealthONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesONE HOUSE…TODAY IS A GOOD DAY — $14,000 · Human ServicesTODAY IS …HATBORO-HORSHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EducationTHE GIVING TREE — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$153,500Recreation & Sports$90,000Health$45,000Human Services$29,000Education$12,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpecial Equestrians Inc — $90,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTODAY IS A GOOD DAY — $14,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHATBORO-HORSHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAFTER THE GLOW INC — $5,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCure AP4 Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRSVP Volunteers — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING TREE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Special Equestrians Inc
  • Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC
  • Who funds TODAY IS A GOOD DAY
  • Who funds HATBORO-HORSHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AFTER THE GLOW INC
  • Who funds Cure AP4 Inc
  • Who funds RSVP Volunteers
  • Who funds THE GIVING TREE
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 National Foundation 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 National Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Commonwealth National Foundation 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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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