Texas · Nonprofit
COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC
COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,205 to it, the largest being MANSFIELD CARES INC ($547,005). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $707k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Common Ground Network Inc does
Mission
Provide school age children with food and school supplies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The feed the kids program is a year round program that partners with local food pantries and churches, in order to get food into the hands of families that need assistance. The programs are funded through common ground members, civic organizations, many local businesses and private citizens. Feed the kid for summer provides bags filled with nutritious child friendly foods to children in the mansfield isd who qualify through the free and reduced meal program during the school year. This allows children to prepare their own meals during the summer months while their parents are away from home working, feeding approximately 1,300 children per week at food pantries across the school district.
$103,498 spent61% of program spendingFeed the kids backpack program distributes bags of food to misd schools that have identified children who are at risk of not receiving meal over the weekend during the school year. Common ground member maintain relationships with the schools to ensure every child comes to school on monday morning ready to learn. The weekend backpack program operates during regular 33 weeks a school year and feeds approximately 625 children per week.
$35,415 spent21% of program spendingChristmas assistance program each year a network of churches and civic groups "adopt" groups of children that provide gifts and clothing to each child in our community that is in need. The Common Ground Network Inc qualifies families through an application process in october that is promoted within mansfield isd. Once families have been approved, their information is distributed to churches and organizations that provide the needs for the family during the month of december. Each program is slightly different but every family is sure to feel the holiday spirit. School supplies each fall common ground network, inc. Partners with the mansfield isd in providing thousands of pencils, folders, glue sticks and more to families in the community who would otherwise struggle to provide their students with necessary school supplies. Hundreds of volunteers are needed to make this event a success and thousands of dollars are needed to provide the supplies. Distribution is the second saturday of august and is hosted at the mansfield back to school bash.
$29,714 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,627.
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 2021 to 2022, from $260k to $154k (−41%).
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.
7% of COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $58k → $47k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 6 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 NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
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 NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“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 NETWORK INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON GROUND NETWORK 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC?
- COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,205 to it, the largest being MANSFIELD CARES INC ($547,005). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $707,205 in grants to COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC?
- MANSFIELD CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $547,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GROUND NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 6 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