Maryland · Nonprofit
COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC
COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,477 to it, the largest being GO HUMANITY INC ($20,111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $-35435
What Common Ground Community Center Inc does
Mission
The Common Ground Community Center is a member-driven organization. We are a diverse and vibrant community of students, parents, teachers, and friends who are changing the face of homeschooling.is not affiliated with any homeschool group and is open to all homeschoolers.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Our Baltimore Homeschool Community Center program provides educational and social opportunities for homedchooling families. Many of these families turned to homeschooling because they were unable to find and or afford an educational institution that could accomodate their childs learning style, cultural orientation, special talents or interests, and or social needs. Since its founding, its members have increased 5 fold to approximately 100 families, and the variety programs it offers has expanded greatly. These programs include classes in all the major academic subjects, clubs, social and cultural events and humanitarian activities. Our MD Homeschool Reviews program is an education ministry registered with the MD State Dept of Education to supervise home instruction under regulation .05 of the home instruction regulations, COMAR 13A.10.01 home instruction. It is an organization dedicated to creating and maintaining a safe and nurturing environment while offering support, information and resources to families who choose to educate their children at home. It serves 50 families.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $161k to $108k (−33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $181.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 COMMUNITY CENTER 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 COMMUNITY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER 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 COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,477 to it, the largest being GO HUMANITY INC ($20,111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,477 in grants to COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- GO HUMANITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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