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We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$374k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$438kHuman Services$436kYouth Development$214kEducation$167kPhilanthropy$145kFood & Nutrition$127kHousing & Shelter$93kRecreation & Sports$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$374,188
Median grant
1
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Total Contributions Paid$374,188
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PELHAM GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND: $1k → 7%PELHAM GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND: $1k → 7%PELHAM GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND: $1k → 7%PELHAM GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND: $1k → 7%PELHAM GOOD NEIGHBOR FUND: $1k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $1k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $3k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $2k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $2k → 7%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 10%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 10%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 8%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $825 → 10%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 8%TUFTSMEDICINE CARE AT HOME: $4k → 10%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $6k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $3k → 10%ELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $1k → 10%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $4k → 8%AGESPAN: $1k → 10%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $3k → 8%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $2k → 8%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $1k → 8%POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT: $5k → 8%POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT: $4k → 8%POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT: $4k → 8%LIFELINKS INC: $4k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $26k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $21k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $20k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $11k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $3k → 8%JOSEPH MIDDLEMISS BIG HEART FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%TEAM MICKY WARD CHARITIES: $3k → 8%TEAM MICKY WARD CHARITIES: $3k → 8%LIVE FOR LIV: $3k → 8%LIVE FOR LIV: $1k → 8%LIVE FOR LIV: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
MA
CA
CO
VA
KS
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 231 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

231 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 231 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

231
103

Total granted

$1.8M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+26%

Still filing today

59%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $148k · revenue +37%
  • Catie's Closet Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $81k · revenue +38%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS A BED FOR EVERY CHILD
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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.

1
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
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2
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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3
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
4
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
5
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
6
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Cambridge Homes
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Greater Lowell Workforce Dev Board Inc dba Masshire Greater Lowell Workforce
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9
Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region. by raising awareness and providing resources for our communities, schools, civic and…

Health
10
Bridgewell Danvers Housing Corporation

Low income housing for the handicapped.

Housing & Shelter
11
Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore Inc

Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts

Housing & Shelter
12
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Service Credit Union Impact 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

182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 337 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)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/182
Grantees still filing
133/182
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Total Contributions Paid: $374,188 · OtherTotal Contributions PaidTHE SALVATION ARMY: $68,916 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+125 more: $756,012 · Other+125 moreTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $148,195 · HealthTHE LOWELL GENERA…D'YOUVILLE LIFE AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY INC: $38,388 · HealthD'YOUVILLE LIFE A…LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $36,685 · HealthLOWELL COMMUNITY …GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $30,060 · HealthGREATER LAWRENCE …LOWELL HOUSE INC: $24,500 · HealthLOWELL HOUSE INCHidden Battles Foundation Inc: $20,079 · HealthHidden Battles Fo…THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,966 · Health+6 more: $35,515 · Health+6 moreCatie's Closet Inc: $80,930 · Human ServicesCatie's Clos…GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $65,705 · Human ServicesGREATER LOWE…ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC: $16,390 · Human ServicesACRE FAMILY …POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT: $12,375 · Human Services+23 more: $86,985 · Human Services+23 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $65,750 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $44,450 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $20,985 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $19,952 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS IN DISABILITY SPORTS INC: $6,445 · Youth Development+6 more: $19,570 · Youth DevelopmentGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $67,250 · PhilanthropyDCU for Kids: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCU KIDS AT HEART INC: $16,565 · PhilanthropyHANSCOM FCU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $15,260 · PhilanthropyTHE WILLIAM S RIZOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyLANGLEY FOR FAMILIES - THE FOUNDATION OF LFCU: $7,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,750 · PhilanthropyMILL CITY GROWS INC: $40,350 · Food & NutritionMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $32,425 · Food & NutritionNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $7,410 · Food & NutritionDWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $7,315 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE: $19,780 · EducationSERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION: $19,000 · EducationTown of Chelmsford Scholarship Fund Inc: $11,000 · EducationPROJECT LEARN INC: $6,675 · EducationADAM KEENAN FOUNDATION INC CARE OF AUDREY KEENAN: $3,732 · Education+3 more: $5,250 · Education
Other$1,199,116Health$346,388Human Services$262,385Youth Development$177,152Philanthropy$145,325Food & Nutrition$99,000Education$65,437

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $148,195 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $80,930 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $67,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $65,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $65,705 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $44,450 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC: $40,350 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $36,685 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $32,425 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS ALUMNI CLUB INC: $32,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $30,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDCU for Kids: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUTEC Inc: $20,985 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHidden Battles Foundation Inc: $20,079 over 5y, 73% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $19,952 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE: $19,780 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCU KIDS AT HEART INC: $16,565 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC: $16,390 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHANSCOM FCU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $15,260 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOwl Diner Charities Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $12,966 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $12,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT: $12,375 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $11,145 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Chelmsford Scholarship Fund Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGateways Community Services Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe PLUS Company Inc: $10,210 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $9,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $9,120 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILLIAM S RIZOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $8,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLACE OF PROMISE INC: $8,795 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $8,215 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Durkin Foundation Inc: $7,850 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetValley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc: $7,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLANGLEY FOR FAMILIES - THE FOUNDATION OF LFCU: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $7,410 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $7,315 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Teamwork Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $6,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $6,675 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE FOR LIV INC: $6,490 over 5y, 3.5% 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.

  • Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS ALUMNI CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DCU for Kids ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hidden Battles Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CU KIDS AT HEART INC ↗
  • Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HANSCOM FCU CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Owl Diner Charities Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Greater Lowell Commun…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Saab Family Found…Cummings Foundation G…Salem Five Charitable…Theodore Edson Parker…Essex County Communit…Demoulas FoundationRogers Family Foundat…Lowell Five Charitabl…Agnes M Lindsay TrustRichard K & Nancy L D…
Greater Lowell Community Foundation IncMA105.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation

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 We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 720%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Troubled Waters Inc: 98% of income from government
  • Incompass Human Services Inc: 94% of income from government
  • Bridgewell Inc: 85% of income from government
  • L'Arche Boston North Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Agespan Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Cultural Organization of Lowell Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Acre Family Child Care Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Community Teamwork Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Semana Hispana En Lawrence Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Megan House Foundation Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Lowell Festival Foundation: 12% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Acord Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Angkor Dance Troupe Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dwelling House of Hope Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Lowell General Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Drew Farmhouse Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 3% of income from government
  • New England Quilt Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • House of Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lowell Makes Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
72get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 337 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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