Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC
COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,448 to it, the largest being GEORGE C WADLEIGH FOUNDATION INC ($208,244). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $380k
- Net assets
- $772k
What Common Ground Ministries Inc does
Mission
Love thy neighbor.To live out the Gospel message through compassionate feeding, clothing, and caring for our communitys low-income and homeless residents.To provide services aimed at alleviating hunger and homelessness while being an advocate for the financially underprivileged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Thrift Shop: Donations of clothing and household goods are cleaned, washed and made available for sale to the public. Clothing is given to the poorest residents that cannot afford to purchase these items.
$52,522 spent48% of program spendingCafe and food pantry: The cafe was opened to provide a meal and cup of coffee to the Citys poorest residents. The cafe is supported by free-will offerings. Noone is turned away because they are unable to make a contribution. It is open 365 days per year. In addition to a meal schedule, the cafe hosts breakfasts and monthly birthday celebrations for the poor. The food pantry provides emergency food and a monthly food pantry distribution.
$52,521 spent48% of program spendingOther miscellaneous programs: English as a second language, food pantry expenses, Christmas Outreach program
$3,823 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,866.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $896k to $1.1M (+19%).
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: 2023 49% · 2024 16% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
William Spirdione
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $65k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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 MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2020 71% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504 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.
Against its field
COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES 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 MINISTRIES INC?
- COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,448 to it, the largest being GEORGE C WADLEIGH FOUNDATION INC ($208,244). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $380,448 in grants to COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC?
- GEORGE C WADLEIGH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $208,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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