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The Commons Foundation

On a going forward basis THE COMMONS FOUNDATION mission is to fund, build and sustain the larkspur library.

$11k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,523
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,523
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$6.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Commons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$11k0%
FY20201$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$17k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

LARKSPUR PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,523

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How do I get to The Commons Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Commons 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.

About The Commons Foundation

How much does The Commons Foundation give?
The Commons Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,523 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does The Commons Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Does The Commons Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Commons Foundation based?
The Commons Foundation is based in CA.

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 1 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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