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The Industrial Commons

The mission of THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS is to rebuild a diverse working class based on locally-rooted wealth.

$880k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$89,224
Largest grant, FY2024
$337,761
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$35M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catawba Valley Community College$416,7191n/a
Nc State University$337,7611n/a
Material Return$64,1431n/a
Western Piedmont Community College$27,4451n/a

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.

Gateway Wellness FoundationNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gateway Wellness Foundation · Rostan Family Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc

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.

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How do I get to The Industrial Commons?

Find your warmest path to The Industrial Commons 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 Industrial Commons

How much does The Industrial Commons give?
The Industrial Commons reported 6 grants totaling $880,466 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Industrial Commons fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Community Improvement (38%).
Who are The Industrial Commons's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Catawba Valley Community College ($417k), Nc State University ($338k), Material Return ($64k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Industrial Commons?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gateway Wellness Foundation, Rostan Family Foundation, The Golden Leaf Inc.
Where is The Industrial Commons based?
The Industrial Commons is based in NC.

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 5 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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