North Carolina · Nonprofit
COMMON HEART INC
COMMON HEART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $859,736 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,257). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $860k
- Net assets
- $626k
What Common Heart Inc does
Mission
Common hearts goal is to create a small revolution of kindness in our community to eradicate food insecurity and eliminate generational poverty. We foster individual and community engagement to feed hungry families and empower those in poverty, creating a sustainable community where all can thrive.programs are built on the power of relationships
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Common heart operated 14 pantry outreach locations in 2025 across union county, nc. These pantries served 22,271 unique individuals an average of 6 times per year. 64.6 of the estimated food insecure residents in county our goal is to remove all barriers to receiving this assistance, and so we provide a combination of 5 evening pantries providing service each weeknight in different parts of the county, 3 morning pantries, 4 neighborhood pantries, and 2 delivery-based pantry locations. Our legacy delivery pantry, common cupboard, focuses on delivering groceries and creating supportive friendships. The unique dynamic of our pantries is the infusion of intentional, active kindness, creating relationships across socioeconomic and racial boundaries.
$1,720,965 spent$848 earned by the program81% of program spendingEconomic empowerment programs of common heart are designed to empower families experiencing the low-resource environment of poverty and food insecurity to become more stable and upwardly mobile. The on-ramp is getting ahead in a just-getting-by world ga, which is proven to increase stability and resources to create new futures for families experiencing poverty. Graduates of this program are offered seven free coaching sessions to assist them in achieving the goals and plans set in ga. During the next 12-18 months, we engage graduates with over 24 workshops, each 10-90 hours long, to build on their ga experience, along with monthly resource-building gatherings. Through participation in these learning opportunities, achieving goals, and volunteering, participants have the opportunity to gain a 500 emergency savings account. Training is also provided to the community at large, assisting professionals and volunteers to create better outcomes in their service to under-resourced families.
$294,630 spent14% of program spending2025 was our 19th annual great turkey countdown, utilizing over 800 volunteers to gather and deliver a turkey and all the fixins for low-income families to prepare for thanksgiving. This is a major community undertaking as we engage local churches, businesses, and our friends on facebook to donate turkeys, fixins, or cash to be used to purchase these items. Volunteers help pack and deliver the food. We provided thanksgiving meals to 1,550 families, reaching over 8,000 of our neighbors. We delivered over 80,000 pounds of food for thanksgiving this year
$103,650 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,119,245.
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 $84k to $488k (+481%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COMMON HEART INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Keith Adams
Executive director ex-officio, non-voting
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $8k → $135k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HEART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 HEART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
75% 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 HEART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 73% · 2019 60% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of COMMON HEART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
50% of COMMON HEART INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $426k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 HEART INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON HEART 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 HEART 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 HEART INC?
- COMMON HEART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $859,736 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,257). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMON HEART INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $859,736 in grants to COMMON HEART INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON HEART INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON HEART INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing