Connecticut · Nonprofit
Common Ground Committee Inc
Common Ground Committee Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,764,389 to it, the largest being TENACRE FOUNDATION ($5,495,318). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $33k
What Common Ground Committee Inc does
Mission
To pursue initiatives which will reveal common ground for finding truth, clarity, understanding, and progress on issues of importance in a civil manner that does not require compromise of fundamental principles.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Programs
Live Events: Live events have a moderated conversation between two or more panelists who have positions on different sides of an issue. The event may be held in person in front of a live audience or may be broadcast in real time to an internet audience. The objective is for the panelists to find areas where they have agreement on the issues, thus finding common ground.
$682,711 spentVirtual Events: Virtual events are those recorded for broadcast at another time. These are primarily podcasts which may follow the format of the live events but also provide opportunities for people to relate stories and personal experiences where they have found common ground or agreement with those who have different positions on an important issue.
$477,581 spentPublications: Blogs and Op-eds. This includes written materials that originates with Common Ground Committee personnel. Examples include our website blog posts and editorial comments, usually created by the founders, that are printed in publications such as USA Today, The Hill, and others. These are usually based on pointing out where there is common ground to be found on various issues presented in the news.
$68,866 spentEducation: Website, YouTube, Vimeo, Scorecard, Interviews, and Animated Videos. Common Ground Committee maintains a variety of audio, video and written materials that it has created or researched from other organizations. Common Ground Committee has designed a repository of these materials for education and research. Our Scorecard measures how well elected officials practice common ground ideals of working with those who have different views and constituencies from themselves in order to inform voters of the behavior of their representatives.
$445,713 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $74k (−95%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Bruce Bond
CEO and Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $53k → $2.3M.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Common Ground Committee Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Common Ground Committee Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Common Ground Committee Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Common Ground Committee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Common Ground Committee Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Common Ground Committee Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,535 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Common Ground Committee Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Common Ground Committee Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Common Ground Committee Inc?
- Common Ground Committee Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,764,389 to it, the largest being TENACRE FOUNDATION ($5,495,318). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Common Ground Committee Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,764,389 in grants to Common Ground Committee Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Common Ground Committee Inc?
- TENACRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,495,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Common Ground Committee Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing